PYI-ARCHIVE_VIEWER(1)

👑 NAME 👑

pyi-archive_viewer — bestie, this is the lil tool that lets you view a PyInstaller archive 💖 (yes literally just look inside it, no cap)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe. you run it like this, and this is the exact shape of it, no editing:

usage: pyi-archive_viewer [-h] [-l] [-r] [-b] [--log-level LEVEL]
pyi_archive

that's it, that's the whole summoning ritual ✨

🌸 positional arguments

• pyi_archive — the PyInstaller archive you want to poke at. it's required, so like… you gotta give it one. no archive, no vibes. 🫶

💅 options

• -h, --help — shows you this help message and then dips out. classic. 💖
• -l, --list — lists the archive contents and exits (default: False). like a little peek inside the box and then bye 👋
• -r, --recursive — recursively prints an archive log (default: False). implies --list, so it's giving overachiever, it does the listing thing too 🌀
• -b, --brief — when it's displaying archive contents, it shows only file names. (default: False). minimalism era ✨
• --log-level LEVEL — how much detail you get in build-time console messages. LEVEL can be one of TRACE, DEBUG, INFO, WARN, DEPRECATION, ERROR, FATAL (default: INFO). it can also be set via the PYI_LOG_LEVEL environment variable, and when you pass it here it overrides that env var. so yeah, command line stays the main character 👑🔊

heads up bestie: the default for --log-level is INFO, and the flag beats PYI_LOG_LEVEL every single time. don't let the env var gaslight you 💀

okay and the receipts for all of this: this page is from version 6.10.0, dated October 2024 🎀 and it lives in the PyInstaller Archive Viewer(1) zone — yes the whole thing is the "User Commands" corner of the manual, and we ate, no crumbs, periodt 🌈💜