On: Write yourself a Git (2018)

[Myrmornis]

docopt deserves a link in this thread: https://github.com/docopt/docopt

It’s a magical idea if you haven’t seen it. You just write the help text and it automatically creates the argument parsing code.

[gibsjose → Myrmornis]

Magical is truly the word to describe Docopt. I use it for all Python code I write and have also used the C and C++ variants. I would highly recommend Docopt to anyone writing command-line utilities.