Paperbush is a super concise argument parsing tool that simplifies the process of creating command-line argument parsers in Python. With Paperbush, you can define your parser in just a single line of code using a custom built-in language, which is then translated directly into the built-in argparse
module equivalent. This means that in most cases, moving to Paperbush is just a matter of changing the parser definition, as Paperbush.parse_args()
returns an argparse.Namespace
object.
Paperbush is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip
, or any other Python package manager:
$ pip install paperbush
(Some systems may require you to use pip3
, python -m pip
, or py -m pip
)
- short name inferrence
- mutually exclusive groups
- choices and the count action
- default values
- required arguments
- type conversion
- help messages
Currently Paperbush has no support for:
- aliases
- subparsers
Paperbush is licensed under the MIT License.