http://simonwillison.net/2009-12-09T08:41:02+00:00Simon Willison2009-12-09T08:41:02+00:002009-12-09T08:41:02+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Dec/9/zachary/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.zacharyvoase.com/post/275566873">Fixing Django Management Commands</a></strong></p> Zachary Voase proposes dramatically improving Django’s management command API for Django 1.3. I’m in favour—management commands are one of the only APIs in Django that I have to look up every single time I use. My optfunc library was written partially with management commands in mind—Zachary favours the argparse library. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/argparse">argparse</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/managementcommands">managementcommands</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/optfunc">optfunc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/zachary-voase">zachary-voase</a></p>

2009-05-28T21:32:24+00:002009-05-28T21:32:24+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/28/perl6/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/14-main-sub.html">Perl 6: The MAIN sub</a></strong></p> "Calling subs and running a typical Unix program from the command line is visually very similar: you can have positional, optional and named arguments." - that's exactly what I was thinking when I came up with <a href="https://github.com/simonw/optfunc">optfunc</a>. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://simonwillison.net/2009/May/28/optfunc/#c45364">Keith Devens</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cli">cli</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/optfunc">optfunc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/perl">perl</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/perl6">perl6</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/unix">unix</a></p>

2009-05-28T19:38:14+00:002009-05-28T19:38:14+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/28/optfunc/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://github.com/simonw/optfunc">optfunc</a></strong></p> Command line parsing libraries in Python such as optparse frustrate me because I can never remember how to use them without consulting the manual. optfunc is a new experimental interface to optparse which works by introspecting a function definition (including its arguments and their default values) and using that to construct a command line argument parser. Feedback and suggestions welcome! <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cli">cli</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/github">github</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/introspection">introspection</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/optfunc">optfunc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/optparse">optparse</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/projects">projects</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>