[crabbone]

Saw "Click" being used. Didn't read further. This is worthless.

For those who don't know. Python has argsparse package that ships with every Python distribution. It's much better in terms of organizing command-line arguments, easier to debug, easier to extend (which is very rarely necessary).

Click is a third-party dependency. It's not solving any real problems. It's not like argsparse had a problem and Click came to solve those. It's just that author had too much spare time on their hands and decided to learn how to do something new. The author made some rooky mistakes along the way. He totally misunderstood how locales and encodings work and for a while Click was a source of errors related to that. Maybe still is, but fewer packages are using it? -- I don't know.

If anyone chooses to use Click over argsparse, it only means lack of research. Following fads w/o any sort of independent thinking. Not someone I'd encourage to take advice from.

[oefrha]

click an alternative argparse API and then some (progress bar, for instance). While I prefer argparse to click, saying it’s worthless because argparse exists is like saying requests is worthless because urllib.request exists.

Btw, mitsuhiko created Flask, simonw created Django. Total rookies, I know.

[crabbone]

You are not comparing comparable things. Requests has, albeit marginal utility by making the interface of urllib more accessible. They work together.

Click is not an interface or an improvement on argsparse. It duplicates its core functionality. When compared to argsparse it offers no tangible benefits and lots of downsides. While "improvements" like the mentioned progress bar are worth very little. They are both poorly implemented, so, if you wanted a real thing you'd have to do it differently, and unwanted for the most part. It's a very small niche where you want something half-baked, and you already agreed to install third-party dependencies, but you won't go all the way to use, eg. Prompt Toolkit.

There's nothing commendable about Flask or Django. Both projects are hilariously bad. They are popular because of what they do, not because of how they do it. Web in general is one of those places nobody should go look for quality, but a crossbreed of Python and Web brings the worst of both worlds.

[simonw]

You're being quite rude here.

[reportgunner]

*because httpx exists

[apple4ever]

Thank you for this. I was wondering why Click is around when argsparse works great and has everything needed (and does not enforce positional arguments).