Intermittently over the past few years, I’ve been writing various command line apps in Python. Things like split, but with a little more complexity and in a higher level language.
I’ve often felt I wasn’t quite writing these in a Pythonic fashion. I’d stashed away Guido van Rossum’s BDFL blessed idiom for main, but never really put it to use.
Steve Lott has a much better and simpler style of writing Python main functions, that seems more easy to ingest and adopt. He even includes a nice example of how to tie option parsing into logging.
Now it would be great if someone could come up with a cookbook for using the argparse module.