plac 0.6.0

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

The source code and the documentation are hosted on Google code. First you should read the basic documentation:

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

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

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