Simon Willison’s Weblog

Fixing Django Management Commands. 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.

# 9th December 2009, 8:41 am / django, managementcommands, zachary-voase, argparse, optfunc, python

Perl 6: The MAIN sub (via) "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 optfunc.

# 28th May 2009, 9:32 pm / perl, optfunc, commandlines, perl6, python, unix

optfunc. 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!

# 28th May 2009, 7:38 pm / optfunc, github, introspection, commandlines, optparse, projects, python