Simple shell which initializes a connection to Rackspace CloudFiles

rcloud_console.py

import argparse

import cloudfiles
from cloudfiles.connection import Connection


AUTH_URLS = ['uk_authurl', 'us_authurl']


if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("rcloud_user", help="the rcloud user to use")
    parser.add_argument("rcloud_key", help="the rcloud api key to use")
    parser.add_argument("-s", "--servicenet", help="whether to use servicenet",
                        action="store_true")
    parser.add_argument("-a", "--authurl", help="which authurl to use",
                        choices=AUTH_URLS, default=AUTH_URLS[0])
    args = parser.parse_args()

    con = Connection(
        username=args.rcloud_user,
        api_key=args.rcloud_key,
        authurl=getattr(cloudfiles, args.authurl),
        servicenet=args.servicenet
    )

    print 'Connection object is available as con'