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On 12/11/2013 01:41 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 11/12/2013 19:22, Chris Angelico wrote:
> There is, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/docopt/0.6.1 :)
>

+1 for docopt. It makes everything very clear. Just type out your usage 
string, and then run docopt(usage_str) on it to get a dict of your args. 
When I saw the video at http://docopt.org my jaw dropped. I couldn't 
believe all of the arg parsing junk I had been writing for even the 
smallest scripts. The other arg parsing libs make it easier than 
manually doing it, but docopt is magic.


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