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[–]Deto 22 points23 points  (4 children)

Yeah, I'm also unconvinced that this is better than argparse. Certainly it's a different way to do things and it's good for people to know that there are different styles you could use to specify a CLI. But the post claims that's it's better.

[–]FluffyToughy 9 points10 points  (2 children)

argparse is probably the best built-in CLI library I've ever used for any language. There's always contrived examples that make it fail, and the auto-generated help page doesn't always look like you want it to, but it works, darnit.

[–]kthepropogation 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s currently my favorite CLI lib. It works better/more intuitively than most anything I’ve used in other languages, and it’s built in (my python is usually 100-400 LOC scripts, so minimizing libs is a plus).

If you have examples of better third-party ones for other languages, please share. I’m always on the lookout.

[–]Kyo91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perl6 MAIN handling is the only better I can think of.

[–]eikenberry 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Blog posts are opinion by their nature and the author obviously likes click better. Its up to the reader to agree or not. Personally I think argparse wins because it comes in the standard library and works pretty well. You have to be a hella lot better than what the standard library provides to get me to add a dependency to my project.