docopt creates beautiful command-line interfaces.
Want to add an option or argument to your script? Don’t want to add yet another line of argparse boilerplate? Just add the option to your module docstring (you did write docstring, didn’t you?) and docopt takes care of the rest.
docopt is based on conventions that have been used for decades in help messages and man pages for describing a program’s interface. An interface description in docopt is such a help message, but formalized.
docopt helps you:
- define the interface for your command-line app, and
- automatically generate a parser for it.
docopt is free and open source software.
Website: docopt.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Vladimir Keleshev
License: MIT License
docopt is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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