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Command Line Interfaces in Python (Summary)

Liam Pulsifer
Command Line Interfaces in Python Liam Pulsifer 00:43
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In this course, you’ve navigated many different aspects of Python command line arguments. You should feel prepared to apply the following skills to your code:

  • The conventions and pseudo-standards of Python command line arguments
  • The origins of sys.argv in Python
  • The usage of sys.argv to provide flexibility in running your Python programs
  • The Python standard libraries like argparse or getopt that abstract command line processing
  • The powerful Python packages like click and python_toolkit to further improve the usability of your programs

To gain further insights about Python command line arguments and their many facets, you may want to check out the following resources:

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00:00 Over the course of this tutorial, you’ve learned some awesome stuff about Python command line interfaces. You’ve learned where Python’s command line interface structure comes from.

00:10 You’ve learned the underlying support that Python provides you for working with command line arguments. You’ve learned about several of the standards guiding the design of command line interfaces overall in the Unix and Linux traditions.

00:23 You’ve learned the basics to manually handle your own Python command line arguments, but you’ve also learned some libraries that are available to you in Python to make the development of a complex command line interface really easy. So, congratulations! I hope that you enjoyed this tutorial.

00:38 I certainly had fun making it. Thanks again.

Ghani on Nov. 1, 2020

Nice course; thanks a lot!

thomabr4 on June 17, 2021

Exactly what I was looking for. Awesome content!

Phil M on Aug. 30, 2021

Excellent! Well done course!! You provided a lot of extra resources that I am excited to explore - beside using some of your examples in some of my projects - cool stuff. Thanks :)

aniketbarphe on Nov. 7, 2021

Thank You!

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