[sophacles]

Can you provide an example of what you're saying? I've found that argparse.ArgumentParser.parse_known_args() and sub-parsers can do everything I can see click doing. Including lazy loading of plugins and the like.

[the_mitsuhiko]

Argparse has too magic of a design that you could fully nest it. I tried it many times but you always run into it's limitations.

Links to some open bugs on it:

  * http://bugs.python.org/issue13966
  * http://bugs.python.org/issue14191