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Framework for creating command-line interfaces from docstrings.

docopt creates beautiful command-line interfaces:

The docopt Python module allows you to create powerful command line interfaces by simply passing a usage string like those printed by many posix tools. The command parser is automatically generated from the usage and the results of parsing provided arguments are returned as a dict.

Video introduction to docopt: PyCon UK 2012: Create beautiful command-line interfaces with Python.

The docopt module has also been ported to several other programming languages

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docopt required options and options with arguments

I am new to docopt and am having a bit of difficulty getting a small example working. I'm having two small problems just now and would welcome assistance on those problems and more general comments on improving the code. The first problem is getting…
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Docopt: Is it possible to specify repeating positional argument followed by a single positional argument?

I have a simple python script that uses docopt to parse command line arguments. It looks like this: #!/usr/bin/env python __doc__ = """ Usage: mycopy ... """ from docopt import docopt options = docopt(__doc__) When I run it: ./mycopy…
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Formatting Usage with Docopt

I am having a problem with my usage statements in docopt. This is how I'd expect usage to work in the script. The optional parameters (defined with []), I would like to be able to use them together or individually. So -t -o or -o or -t should be…
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Python docopt usage menu issues

Im getting an error i believe is being caused by my usage descriptions but cant work out why. The idea is to grab a list of valid users in a file (username password), split that into a dictionary and return the dictionary. Then grab a file of…
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Error handling with verbose output

Im trying to implement the --verbose option in my script. The idea is to turn on extra printing of errors etc for debugging, but for some reason it doesnt seem to work. Ive tried a few variations of the if verbose statement but no joy. Im hoping…
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Defining Argument values with docopt

Im working on my first python "app" and after some advice from the participants on Stackoverflow. Ive decided to scrap what I had and start from scratch. It seems to be parsing the arguments nicely for usage etc but im not sure how I am meant to…
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Docopt - one ore more options are required

I have three arguments: --a --b --c and I want my command to accept at least on of them but all combinations of a/b/c are also valid. E.g: command.py --a command.py --a --b command.py --a --b --c ... but not without arguments: command.py Thanks!
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Postional arguements in python Docopt

I am writing a simple command line contact manager. i want to be able to add a new contact with the following command. manager.py add -n NAME -p PHONENUMBER but whenver i add a contact using firstname and lastname, the code throws errors. eg.…
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Quote marks in args for littler/docopt

I want to pass strings like key="value" to a littler script. In bash, I have argtest.sh: #!/bin/sh echo $1 which I can call, preserving the quotes from the shell by backslashes, and I see them in the output: $ ./argtest.sh x=\"1\" x="1" However I…
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curl command to python dict

I am a backend dev at my current company. When the front-end team has an issue, they will sometimes use Chrome devtool's "copy request as curl" feature and send me the problematic curl request. I was thinking it would be cool if I could write a…
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Replacing sys.argv with docopt

I'm working on incorporating some string replacements and currently arguments are passed to my script using sys.argv[i]. I'd like to replace sys with docopt, but I've found the documentation relatively unclear so far. The way my code currently works…
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How to enter command line argument with docops?

How can I enter command line arguments in Rust using docopts? I'd like to simply be able to enter a u8 in a vector and parse it with docopts.
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