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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 bars 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
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command-line interfaces in a composable way with as little code as
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possible. This “Command-line Interface Creation Kit” is 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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`Plac <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/plac>`_ is a simple wrapper
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over the Python standard library `argparse <http://docs.python.org/2/library/argparse.html>`_,
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which hides most of its complexity by using a declarative interface: the
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argument parser is inferred rather than written down by imperatively. This
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module targets especially unsophisticated users, programmers, sys-admins,
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scientists and in general people writing throw-away scripts for themselves,
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who choose to create a command-line interface because it is quick and simple.
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Cliff
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`Cliff <https://cliff.readthedocs.org/en/latest>`_ is a framework for
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building command-line programs. It uses setuptools entry points to provide
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subcommands, output formatters, and other extensions. The framework is meant
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to be used to create multi-level commands such as subversion and git, where
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the main program handles some basic argument parsing and then invokes a
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sub-command to do the work.
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