plumbum vs cliff

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plumbum		cliff
	Project
5	Mentions	-
2,749	Stars	225
-	Growth	0.9%
7.2	Activity	4.7
2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

plumbum

Posts with mentions or reviews of plumbum. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-23.

Diagram as Code
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jun 2022

if you liked that, you'll love Plumbum[1] :)
[1] https://github.com/tomerfiliba/plumbum
Top python libraries/ frameworks that you suggest every one
15 projects | /r/Python | 28 Mar 2022

plumbum
Declarative command line parser library [Heated Arguments]
4 projects | /r/Python | 22 Mar 2022

I wonder if you included plumbum in your comparison. For some reason, my long time favorite module for this (and more) always gets overlooked.
NOT-fuzzy line pickers
3 projects | /r/commandline | 21 Mar 2022

You'll still have to juggle the input, but when using Python, plumbum offers a solid function for this: choose
Pyshell, A Linux Subprocess Module for Python
2 projects | /r/linux | 1 Nov 2021

It's kinda a nice thing. And the few people that need something like this are already using https://xon.sh/ or https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/ or https://ipython.org/ . You can have a look at these projects though. See what works and doesn't to guide the goals of your own project.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

click - Python composable command line interface toolkit

Python Fire - Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.

cement - Application Framework for Python

asynccli - A CLI framework based on asyncio

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

escape - Simple Terminal Styling for Python

clint - Python Command-line Application Tools

asciimatics - A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations

colorama - Simple cross-platform colored terminal text in Python

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