Simon’s optfunc

Friday 29 May 2009 — This is more than 15 years old. Be careful.

There’s a Moore’s Law effect in Python command-line processing. Every 18 months, it gets 50% easier or 50% more powerful. Simon Willison is keeping the effect going with optfunc, which introspects a function definition and creates the optparse parser needed to grab its arguments from the command line. Very clever.

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Larry Hastings 8:48 PM on 29 May 2009
CommandLineApp does something like this too:
http://www.doughellmann.com/projects/CommandLineApp/

But it both giveth and taketh away; ultimately I wound up rolling my own cheap clone that I felt was incrementally more Pythonic.

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