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Command Line Applications
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.. todo:: Explain "Command Line Applications"
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Clint
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`clint <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/clint/>`_ is a python module which is
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filled with very useful tools for developing command line applications.
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It supports features such as; CLI Colors and Indents, Simple and Powerful
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Column Printer, Iterator based progress bar and Implicit argument handling.
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Click
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`click <http://click.pocoo.org/>`_ is an upcoming Python package for creating command
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line interfaces in a composable way with as little amount of code as
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necessary. It’s the “Command Line Interface Creation Kit”. It’s highly
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configurable but comes with good defaults out of the box.
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docopt
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`docopt <http://docopt.org/>`_ is a lightweight, highly Pythonic package that
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allows creating command line interfaces easily and intuitively, by parsing
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POSIX-style usage instructions.
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Plac
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------
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`Plac <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/plac>`_ is a python module that allows developing command line applications. In fact
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plac is a simple wrapper over the python standard library `argparse <http://docs.python.org/2/library/argparse.html>`_, it hides most of its
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complexity by using a declarative interface: the argument parser is inferred
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rather than written down by imperatively. It is targetting especially unsophisticated
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users, programmers, sys-admins, scientists and in general people writing throw-away
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scripts for themselves, choosing the command line interface because it is quick
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and simple.
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Cliff
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------
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`Cliff <https://cliff.readthedocs.org/en/latest>`_ is a framework for building command line programs.
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It uses setuptools entry points to provide subcommands, output formatters, and other extensions. The framework
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is meant to be used to create multi-level commands such as subversion and git, where the main program handles
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some basic argument parsing and then invokes a sub-command to do the work.
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