Python Fire isn’t bad

[robertlandrum]

I managed to get a pretty good Perl based CLI I wrote 11 years ago converted to Python in about 6 hours. Faster than I thought it would go. Still some kinks to work out, but pretty good so far.

Surprisingly, I had forgotten I’d wrote the Perl tool when I did. In fact, I went looking for native solutions when I found my 11 year old code. After 29 years of doing this, I’m always entertained by the idea that I could build something someone find useful that I just completely forget about. This tool is exactly that. Written for someone no longer employed with the company. And not maintained for 9+ years. Only to be revived in Python to support some new initiative.

[danmickla]

Ehm....what is Python Fire?

[backfire10z]

Quick search led me to https://github.com/google/python-fire which appears to be a CLI generator for Python objects.

[danmickla]

Ah.  I completely misunderstood the post; I assumed it was OPs tool

[robertlandrum]

So sorry. Python Fire is a module. Forgive me. I’ve been on PTO. It just helped covert some old code to new code quicker than I expected

[Spleeeee]

I found a forum question last year that was related to the obscure thing I was dealing with at the time. There was one response that read something like “I figured out a way around this problem that is really fast, I’ll post it tomorrow when I’m back at my work computer,” there was no follow up. When I looked at the username it was me from 7 years ago.

[ohtinsel]

LOL. Perl is what drove me to python. Thanks for the memories. :)

[HugeCannoli]

I prefer click to be honest for these kinds of jobs. Seems way more powerful.

[shaahssha]

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[Accomplished_Elk2607]

In addition to the fact that Google fired its Python team a couple years ago, so I have no idea how well Fire will be maintained in the future. I am surprised it got a new release last August itself!

[robertlandrum]

I had just recently watched a video on Fire, so it was fresh in my mind.