cliff VS Python Fire

Compare cliff vs Python Fire and see what are their differences.

cliff

Command Line Interface Formulation Framework. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org. (by openstack)

Python Fire

Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object. (by google)
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cliff Python Fire
0 37
223 26,166
0.4% 1.1%
4.7 6.8
21 days ago 6 days ago
Python Python
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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cliff

Posts with mentions or reviews of cliff. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning cliff yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Python Fire

Posts with mentions or reviews of Python Fire. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cliff and Python Fire you can also consider the following projects:

click - Python composable command line interface toolkit

typer - Typer, build great CLIs. Easy to code. Based on Python type hints.

Gooey - Turn (almost) any Python command line program into a full GUI application with one line

PyInquirer - A Python module for common interactive command line user interfaces

docopt - Pythonic command line arguments parser, that will make you smile

pydantic-cli - Turn Pydantic defined Data Models into CLI Tools

cement - Application Framework for Python

plumbum - Plumbum: Shell Combinators

rich - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.

python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python