Click: A Pleasure to Write, a Pleasure to Use¶
As developers, we spend a lot of time trying to automate task that we have to carry out repeatedly. A likely result is a little (or not so little) command line tool that supposedly makes our lives easier.
The Python standard library and as well as the wider community have come up with a wide range of packages that make it easier and quicker to write a Python script that can handle arguments and options.
My personal experience is that they are good, but not great... until I came across click a tool written by Armin Ronacher. It’s just beautiful to work with and create simple, yet powerful, command line tools.
In this talk, I will take a look at the landscape of Python packages that help building command line tools such as argparse and docopt. I will then introduce click and illustrate some of the benefits over its alternatives before looking at a concrete example to show some of its main features.
About Sebastian Vetter¶
Sebastian has discovered his love for Python early in his University days. Since then, he has used it in academic research, financial testing and web development. He has made considerable contributions to the django-oscar project and has recently moved to Vancouver to work at Mobify. He is passionate about his work with Python and in the open source community as well as a healthy obsession with code aesthetics.