Examples

The following page shows a few examples comparing Paperbush to argparse.

argparsePaperbush

from argparse import ArgumentParser

parser = ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("-b", "--base", type=float, required=True)
parser.add_argument("-e", "--exponent", type=float, default=2.0)

from paperbush import Paperbush

parser = Paperbush("--base!:float --exponent:float=2.0")

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argparsePaperbush

from argparse import ArgumentParser

parser = ArgumentParser()
group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
parser.add_argument("x", type=int)
parser.add_argument("y", type=int)
group.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="count", default=0)
group.add_argument("-q", "--quiet", action="store_true")

from paperbush import Paperbush

parser = Paperbush("x:int y:int --verbose++ ^ --quiet")

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argparsePaperbush

from argparse import ArgumentParser

UNSET = object()
parser = ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("string", nargs="?", default=UNSET)
parser.add_argument(
    "-d",
    "--depth",
    type=int,
    choices=(3, 4, 8, 24),
    default=4
)
parser.add_argument("-c", "--clean", action="store_true")
parser.add_argument("-t", "--test", action="store_true")

from paperbush import Paperbush

UNSET = object()
parser = Paperbush(
    "string:?=$0 --depth:int:(3, 4, 8, 24)=4 --clean --test",
    UNSET
)

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argparsePaperbush

from argparse import ArgumentParser

parser = ArgumentParser()
group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
group.add_argument("-m")
group.add_argument("-c")
parser.add_argument("-O", action="count")
parser.add_argument("-q", action="store_true")

from paperbush import Paperbush

parser = Paperbush("-m:str ^ -c:str -O++ -q")

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argparsePaperbush

import sys
from argparse import ArgumentParser

parser = ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("-i", "--inputs", nargs="*")
parser.add_argument("-s", "--smart", action="store_true")
parser.add_argument("-o", "--output", default=sys.stdout)

import sys
from paperbush import Paperbush

parser = Paperbush("--inputs:* --smart --output=$0", sys.stdout)