Allow predict --cls to receive a file path

README.md

@@ -119,9 +119,8 @@ Options:
   --format=FORMAT      format of the output (table or csv) for predict mode [default: csv]
   --rank=RANK          rank of the classification (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species) [default: species] 
   --k=K                number of top predictions to show [default: 5]
-  --cls=CLS            comma separated list of classes to predict, when specified the --rank and --k 
-  arguments are not allowed
-  --cls-file CLS_FILE  path to file with list of classes to predict, one per line, when specified the --rank and --k arguments are not allowed
+  --cls=CLS            classes to predict either a comma separated list or a path to a text file of classes (one per line), when specified the --rank argument is not allowed.
+  --rank and --k arguments are not allowed
   --device=DEVICE      device to use matrix math (cpu or cuda or mps) [default: cpu]
   --output=OUTFILE     print output to file OUTFILE [default: stdout]
 ```

src/bioclip/__main__.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from bioclip import TreeOfLifeClassifier, Rank, CustomLabelsClassifier
 from .predict import BIOCLIP_MODEL_STR
 import open_clip as oc
+import os
 import json
 import sys
 import prettytable as pt
@@ -83,9 +84,9 @@ def create_parser():
     predict_parser.add_argument('--rank', choices=['kingdom', 'phylum', 'class', 'order', 'family', 'genus', 'species'],
                                 help='rank of the classification, default: species (when)')
     predict_parser.add_argument('--k', type=int, help='number of top predictions to show, default: 5')
-    cls_group = predict_parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group(required=False)
-    cls_group.add_argument('--cls', help='comma separated list of classes to predict, when specified the --rank argument is not allowed')
-    cls_group.add_argument('--cls-file', help='path to file with list of classes to predict, one per line, when specified the --rank and --k arguments are not allowed')
+    cls_help = "classes to predict either a comma separated list or a path to a text file of classes (one per line), when specified the --rank argument is not allowed."
+    predict_parser.add_argument('--cls', help=cls_help)
+
     predict_parser.add_argument('--device', **device_arg)
     predict_parser.add_argument('--model', **model_arg)
     predict_parser.add_argument('--pretrained', **pretrained_arg)
@@ -147,8 +148,8 @@ def main():
               pretrained_str=args.pretrained)
     elif args.command == 'predict':
         cls_str = args.cls
-        if args.cls_file:
-            cls_str = create_classes_str(args.cls_file)
+        if os.path.exists(args.cls):
+            cls_str = create_classes_str(args.cls)
         predict(args.image_file,
                 format=args.format,
                 output=args.output,

tests/test_main.py

@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ def test_parse_args(self):
         args = parse_args(['predict', 'image.jpg', '--cls', 'class1,class2', '--k', '10'])
         self.assertEqual(args.k, 10)
 
-        args = parse_args(['predict', '--cls-file', 'somefile.txt', 'image.jpg'])
-        self.assertEqual(args.cls_file, 'somefile.txt')
-        self.assertEqual(args.cls, None)
+        # example showing filename
+        args = parse_args(['predict', 'image.jpg', '--cls', 'classes.txt', '--k', '10'])
+        self.assertEqual(args.cls, 'classes.txt')
 
         args = parse_args(['embed', 'image.jpg'])
         self.assertEqual(args.command, 'embed')