docopt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXhcPJK5cMc
https://github.com/docopt/docopt

Cool FIOC shit. Generates command line option parser form a documentation text, like this one:


"""Usage: my_program.py [-hso FILE] [--quiet | --verbose] [INPUT ...]

    -h --help    show this
    -s --sorted  sorted output
    -o FILE      specify output file [default: ./test.txt]
    --quiet      print less text
    --verbose    print more text
"""

The standard module argparse already does that.

http://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html

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I think you don't understand.

It's the other way around, you write

Usage: reddit.py [-abc] [FILE]

Then call docopt and it does everything for you, without adding

argparse.parse.parser.parse(Parse("--parse, parse"))
manually

Great. Too bad Python is bad and I'll never use this

So parsing arguments is hard? Oh right, shitty languages don't have pointers.

This is worse than getopt/argparse because the former was marked obsolete in 2.6 or 2.7 and is to be phased out while argparse is not available in 2.6 stdlib.  So you kinda already have to check for both and use the available one, or parse arguments manually (like I do because it's trivial in Python).

This only adds another package dependency.