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docopt

• Docopt: Command-line interface description language
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Mar 2024
• Building a Command Line Tool with PHP and Symfony Console
  1 project | dev.to | 20 Jan 2024

  Symfony Console closely follows the well-established docopt conventions. Docopt, based on longstanding conventions from help messages and man pages, ensures a consistent and intuitive interface for describing a program's interface. Symfony Console's adherence to docopt conventions guarantees that your command line tools maintain a standardized and predictable user experience, simplifying development and user interaction.

• CLI user experience case study
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2024

  You probably already know, but just in case you don't, you might read about http://docopt.org/ It seems to me a lot of your usage ideas could be refinements of / tooling around docopt-style interfaces.

• Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application
  14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2023

  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.

• Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python
  16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Oct 2023

  I've been using docopt to handle CLI arguments for years now.

  http://docopt.org/

• What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optparse deprecated
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2023

  If you aren't averse to using a third party package, on my personal projects I always found https://github.com/docopt/docopt to be nice.

  You can kill 2 birds with one stone by documenting your scripts while also providing the argument structure / parsing.

• adaszko/complgen: Generate {bash,fish,zsh} completions from a single EBNF-like grammar
  5 projects | /r/rust | 6 Jul 2023

  As for the implementation differences, complgen uses a trivial DSL that’s everybody is already familiar with more or less because it’s a slightly more rigorous version of what tools usually spit out when you do command --help (projects like docopt even use that for command line arguments parsing). Those happen to be regular languages and therefore can be represented as a Deterministic Finite Automata. complgen compiles the grammars to DFAs, minimizes the DFA and spits out shell-specific shell completions scripts that simply walk the DFA to match and complete the current input.

• [Media] shrs: a shell that is configurable and extensible in rust
  10 projects | /r/rust | 1 May 2023

  The current completion system has a list of rules of which completions to use at which time. It's purposely simple to make it as flexible as possible. The current things I'm planning is a derive macro like what clap has to generate these rules. I'm also considering introducing a plugin that let's you write rules in the format of docopt

• Docopt.sh – Command-Line Argument Parser for Bash 3.2, 4, and 5
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2023

  For anyone unfamiliar, docopt is an established standard for specifying arguments in a script’s doc string. I use it for Python and it’s lovely. You’re going to write a docstring with examples anyway, why not make them functional?

  http://docopt.org/

• I am sick of writing argparse boilerplate code, so I made "duckargs" to do it for me
  11 projects | /r/Python | 3 Mar 2023

  I like http://docopt.org/ a lot. You seem like someone who might have opinions on that.