CLI user’s guide

This guide offers a high-level overview of pyHanko as a command-line tool.

(Under construction)

If you installed pyHanko using pip, you should be able to invoke pyHanko using the pyhanko command, like so:

pyhanko --help

If the pyhanko package is on your PYTHONPATH but the pyhanko executable isn’t on your PATH for whatever reason, you can also invoke the CLI through

python -m pyhanko --help

This guide will adopt the former calling convention.

You can run pyhanko in verbose mode by passing the --verbose flag before specifying the subcommand to invoke.

pyhanko --verbose <subcommand>

Note

The CLI portion of pyHanko was implemented using Click. In particular, this means that it comes with a built-in help function, which can be accessed through pyhanko --help.

Caution

The pyHanko CLI makes heavy use of Click’s subcommand functionality. Due to the way this works, the precise position of a command-line parameter sometimes matters. In general, double-dash options (e.g. --option) should appear after the subcommand to which they apply, but before the next one.

Right now, the pyHanko CLI offers two subcommand groups, for sign and stamp, respectively. Additional configuration options are available in an optional YAML config file.