Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python

Re:Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python by archargelod on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:16AM (#38010106)

You better off with using a compiled language.

If you interested in a language that's compiled, fast, but as easy and pleasant as Python - I'd recommend you take a look at Nim: https://nim-lang.org.

Nim has cligen library to generate and parse arguments: https://github.com/c-blake/cligen

And to prove what Nim's capable of - here's a cool repo with 100+ cli apps cligen author wrote in Nim: https://github.com/c-blake/bu

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Re:Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python by cb321 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:07AM (#38011512)

cligen also allows End-CL-users to adjust colorization of --help output like https://github.com/c-blake/cligen/blob/master/screenshots/di... using something like https://github.com/c-blake/cligen/wiki/Dark-BG-Config-File

Last I knew, the argparse backing most Py CLI solutions did not support such easier (for many) to read help text, but the PyUniverse is too vast to be sure without much related work searching.

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