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Motivation#
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Easy transition from argparse
Lightweight as possible
Customizable integration of of argparse-based and other CLI packages
Class based vs decorators
Well-defined initial scope, suitable for practice at producing a high-quality package
Design Goals#
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Use of Decree/Tree by themselves?
Known Limitations & Issues#
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Argparse problems…
Known TODO/FIXME/ISSUES…
No explicit support for late binding
Future Plans#
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Alternatives#
There are a variety of other excellent Python CLI packages, from both the standard library and third-parties.
The Python standard library provides the following CLI packages:
Some third party CLI packages are summarized here. There are others. See
awesome-cli-frameworks
and
awesome-python
for expanded lists. Many of these tools have goals that go beyond the
scope of decree-tree, or use different design paradigms than the goals
of this package.
Refer to Packaging guide