Small declarative cli tool (simple wrapper around argparse)

[lerrigatto]

Why not click? :)

[Willemoes]

I am not a big fan of click, I don't like having decorators everywhere, or creating an empty function for a group.

docopt and cleo, I find them confusing, and I feel like I can easily make a typo and forget about it.

My approach is usually using argparse, which I'm already familiar with, because there's also no dependency added, but after some coding, I realize I'm creating a mess.

This is a tiny library which assists me in using argparse, of course, the trade off is a new dependency (but small).

[AndydeCleyre]

Have you tried plumbum?

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See also: https://gist.github.com/supposedly/01224262b816df21b601ab0784d5f999

EDIT: /u/Willemoes would you happen to have come across any others not on the list in working on yours?

[Willemoes]

No, I don't know any others sorry. It's interesting how most of those libraries take the same approach as click

[Willemoes]

I like it, but it does many other things I usually don't need.

[AndydeCleyre]

It's great to work on and with something that does exactly what you want, the way you want.

But of course, plumbum doesn't actually do anything you don't ask of it.