[Python-ideas] Re: Entrypoint function for modules (AKA if __name__ == '__main__' ) with built-in argument parsing

On Jul 30, 2019, at 21:18, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

The problem with recommending click or fire is that it doesn't look to me like any of those are category killers the way requests became years ago.

Yeah, that’s true. And honestly, I can’t imagine how any of them _could_ become a category killer, because the category is just so broad; there are just too many things you sometimes want to be simpler or more automated than argparse, and they sometimes even conflict with each other. (For example, fire calling literal_eval on args is great for a lot of quick&dirty scripts, but would be disastrous for many other programs.) So… never mind.