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Nim
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
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jc
CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.
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cli-guidelines
A guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.
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Python Fire
Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.
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docopt-ng
Humane command line arguments parser. Now with maintenance, typehints, and complete test coverage.
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Hence, a higher number means a better docopt alternative or higher similarity.
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- Docopt: Command-line interface description language
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Building a Command Line Tool with PHP and Symfony Console
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.
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CLI user experience case study
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.
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Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application
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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Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python
I've been using docopt to handle CLI arguments for years now.
http://docopt.org/
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What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optparse deprecated
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.
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adaszko/complgen: Generate {bash,fish,zsh} completions from a single EBNF-like grammar
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.
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[Media] shrs: a shell that is configurable and extensible in rust
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
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Docopt.sh – Command-Line Argument Parser for Bash 3.2, 4, and 5
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/
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I am sick of writing argparse boilerplate code, so I made "duckargs" to do it for me
I like http://docopt.org/ a lot. You seem like someone who might have opinions on that.
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The primary programming language of docopt is Python.
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