Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application

Re:Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a... by SOLAR_FIELDS on Saturday December 09, 2023 @06:02PM (#38587056)

A WYSIWYG editor that spits out a CLI you mean? That would pretty neat, though I think would necessarily be kind of constrained. I wonder who has tried that approach, I can't think of any examples

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Re:Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a... by andy99 on Saturday December 09, 2023 @06:31PM (#38587316)

Actually, something like a "zotero for argparse" would be cool. Where you enter arguments, their type, help string, defaults etc in a gui and then you can check the ones you need for a given python script and copy the relevant python code into your paste buffer.

I don't think it would be a massive time saver however what I usually do now is find some previous script that had similar arguments and copy them, and then copy-paste-edit to add new arguments.

The other advantage is you could enter the arguments agnostically and export as whatever language you're working in.

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Re:Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a... by exe34 on Saturday December 09, 2023 @07:00PM (#38587533)

http://docopt.org/

Not quite what you asked for, but close: type example invocations to generate the CLI, and just pull the arguments from a dictionary at runtime.

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