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Command Line Applications
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.. todo:: Explain "Command Line Applications"
Clint
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`clint <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/clint/>`_ is a python module which is
filled with very useful tools for developing commandline applications.
It supports features such as; CLI Colors and Indents, Simple and Powerful
Column Printer, Iterator based progress bar and Implicit argument handling.
docopt
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`docopt <http://docopt.org/>`_ is a lightweight, highly Pythonic package that
allows creating command line interfaces easily and intuitively, by parsing
POSIX-style usage instructions.
Plac
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`Plac <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/plac>`_ is a python module that allows developing command line applications. In fact
plac is a simple wrapper over the python standard library `argparse <http://docs.python.org/2/library/argparse.html>`_, 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.