From 852c5b1498c9c9dfad6c7ecc373b260fad27f9e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dhia Abbassi Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:30:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Plac module Added Plac module description --- docs/scenarios/cli.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/scenarios/cli.rst b/docs/scenarios/cli.rst index 933b0f0..5af149e 100644 --- a/docs/scenarios/cli.rst +++ b/docs/scenarios/cli.rst @@ -17,3 +17,14 @@ docopt `docopt `_ is a lightweight, highly Pythonic package that allows creating command line interfaces easily and intuitively, by parsing POSIX-style usage instructions. + +Plac +------ + +`Plac `_ is a python module that allows developing command line applications. In fact +plac is a simple wrapper over the python standard library `argparse `_, it hides most of its +complexity by using a declarative interface: the argument parser is inferred +rather than written down by imperatively. It is targetting especially unsophisticated +users, programmers, sys-admins, scientists and in general people writing throw-away +scripts for themselves, choosing the command-line interface because it is quick +and simple.