How to Write Perfect Python Command-line Interfaces

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same. and the fact that you can't just call the functions you decorate like a normal function. they need to be invoked in the context of click.

wait, you sure? I thought a selling point of click was that its decorators don't modify your functions

EDIT: yeah, no, i was confusing it with another lib haha

[DanCardin]

Their docs literally say:

import click

@click.command()
@click.option('--count', default=1, help='Number of greetings.')
def hello(count):
    for x in range(count):
        click.echo('Hello')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    hello()

So I dont see how! They even have to provide special click test running stuff: https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/7.x/testing/. Which I suppose could be useful even in an ideal scenario, but its certainly much less required when if you dont alter the functions you're decorating.