Usage¶
This program can be imported into other Python programs or run from the commandline.
Importing pycapital¶
To use the program as a module, import pycapitals into your code.
Call the pycapital.capital()
function and pass a country to it as an argument.
The capital()
function will return the capital of that country or a 0 if an invalid
country was passed to it. Capitalisation does not matter:
>>> from pycapital.pycapital import capital
>>> capital("Wakanda")
0
>>> capital("Germany")
'Berlin'
>>> capital("Japan")
'Tokyo'
>>> capital("North Korea")
'Pyongyang'
>>> capital("lithuania")
'Vilnius'
Running it from the commandline.¶
To run PyCapital from the commandline you can do:
python pycapital.py
OR
$ chmod +x pycapital.py
$ ./pycapital.py <country name>
For detailed help information:
$ ./pycapital.py --help
usage: pycapital [country]
Displays capital city of specified country.
positional arguments:
country Displays the capital of country.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit