plac 0.5.0

The smartest command line arguments parser in the world

Installation

If you are lazy, just perform

$ easy_install -U plac

which will install the module on your system (and possibly argparse too, if it is not already installed). Notice that Python 3 requires the easy_install version of the distribute project.

If you prefer to install the full distribution from source, including the documentation, download the tarball, unpack it and run

$ python setup.py install

in the main directory, possibly as superuser.

Testing

Run

$ python doc/test_plac.py

or

$ nosetests doc

or

$ py.test doc

Documentation

You can choose between the HTML version and the PDF version of the basic documentation.

There is also an additional documentation for advanced usages of plac, such as using plac for testing/scripting an application and to write domain specific languages (DSL):

http://micheles.googlecode.com/hg/plac/doc/plac_adv.html

http://micheles.googlecode.com/hg/plac/doc/plac_adv.pdf