Click is a Python package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way with as little code as necessary. It's the "Command Line Interface Creation Kit". It's highly configurable

Ryan He · 1 year ago

Click is a Python package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way with as little code as necessary. It's the "Command Line Interface Creation Kit". It's highly configurable

@[email protected] · edit-2 1 year ago

Hmm, I wonder how it compares to Traitlets? I got recommended that and it’s taken me a while to learn, but it is very powerful. I’m just starting on a subcommand based app, so this is very relevant to me!

EDIT: Just glancing at the documentation I can see the docs are way better!

@lwuy9v5 · edit-2 1 year ago

Traitlets

Click is a library to make a CLI - e.g.

"""echo.py"""

@click.command()
@click.arg("foo")
def echo(foo):
  print(foo)

if __main__: 
  echo()

python ./echo.py "Hello World"

vs Traitlets looks like a (really cool) type validation library? Pydantic is similar

@[email protected] · edit-2 1 year ago

Traitlets also supports subcommands, command line arguments, etc. At its heart though, it’s more of a configuration library.

(I’m very much still a novice coder so definitely take that into account lol!)

https://traitlets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config.html#command-line-arguments

@lwuy9v5 · 1 year ago

Click is awesome, I use it all the time for small and medium sized python projects!