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Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.

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Show HN: Rocketry – Statement-based scheduling framework for Python | Sep 2022
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Fire can basically do the first step (object -> CLI):

https://github.com/google/python-fire

Gooey can do (CLI -> GUI):

https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey
Show HN: Piou – Build beautiful command-line interfaces with type validation | Dec 2021
My fav python cli tool is Fire. No need to even decorate your functions. There may be some limitations compared to Piou, I will have to explore that to find out.

https://github.com/google/python-fire

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Python-fire is a great package for this. Will look into bargeparse

https://github.com/google/python-fire
Free resources to promote your next startup | Oct 2021
I love that! Argparse is such an old and boring solution to such a simple problem that we need more like this. And I have hope that one of the solutions will make it into the standard library at some point.

There are some others like yours:

Google's python-fire (1)

Docopt (2), which creates the cli from the documentation instead of the other way around

Click (3)

And my own commandeer (4)

Typer (5)

(1) https://github.com/google/python-fire (2) http://docopt.org/ (3) https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/8.0.x/ (4) https://pythonhosted.org/Commandeer/index.html (5) https://typer.tiangolo.com/

Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application | Jun 2021
Gooey is a brilliant bit of software.

We use it in combination with Python Fire [0] to easily convert python code to something that users can interact with. Python fire converts our python code into a CLI without all the manual parameter parsing, and Gooey turns the CLI into a simple GUI.

[0] https://github.com/google/python-fire

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I was using click, but it requires too much boilerplate. Fire is much simpler to use, just as powerful (or maybe 95% as powerful) and it's developed by Google devs (it's not an official Google project as far as I remember), so it seems of reasonable quality.

https://github.com/google/python-fire
Top Python libraries of 2020 you should know about | Dec 2020
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Having not used typer, your description is reminiscent of fire [1], which has worked well for our purposes.

[1]: https://github.com/google/python-fire
Tools I use: argparse builder | Oct 2020
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As another commenter here mentioned, you might want to consider fire [1], depending on the complexity of your argparse-usage it might check 90% of your boxes for you.

[1]: https://github.com/google/python-fire
Tools I use: argparse builder | Oct 2020
You might want to look at Google’s python fire which makes this sort of thing obsolete.

https://github.com/google/python-fire

Just comment your code and get pretty arguments.

Real World Programming in SWI-Prolog | Jul 2020
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Yep, totally agree. Python's metaprogramming is powerful enough that you can twist it into any shape you like! :)

My favorite gem, especially before python3 and typehinting were more widely in-use, is attrs [0]. It allows you to define rich data types (which python is great for) in a declarative/expressive/legible manner (which python sometimes isn't great for).

imo, it's a fantastic example of how metaprogramming allows libraries to actually enhance a language. Another one that demonstrates the power of MP is fire[1], a tool that allows you to drive classes with a MP-generated CLI.

[0] https://www.attrs.org/en/stable/examples.html [1] https://github.com/google/python-fire
Hypermodern Python | May 2020
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I personally enjoy using https://github.com/google/python-fire nowadays.

-- it's probably not the most flexible tool, but IMHO it's the one with the best API: fire.Fire(obj) and everything else is taken care of ;)

p.s.: for lazy imports, just don't put them in the top of your module in the entry point.
Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application | Sep 2019
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Someone above posted this: https://github.com/google/python-fire

seems you could generate something with fire tool and then parse it dynamically with Gooey.
Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application | Sep 2019
I'm not a big fan of GUI in general but, ooo, this is nice.

Combine with python-fire for great fun, eh?

> Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.

https://github.com/google/python-fire

Super Easy Python CLI with Click | Aug 2019
I've used Fire[0] for a few projects and have been meaning to give Click a try, but I'm not sure I like the syntax after reading through the article (holy moly decorators). Seems unwieldy to me, but does anyone have experience with both?

[0] https://github.com/google/python-fire

Write Yourself a Git (2018) | Mar 2019
I have nothing to directly comment on the tutorial. Just a tangential mention regarding the tedious argument parsing boilerplate in Python, I have found Python Fire to be much more convenient: https://github.com/google/python-fire

It would have shaved off another 15-20 lines from the 503 line example ;-)

Ask HN: What are the best open source GitHub repos using python 3? | Jul 2018
Here are some popular ones (10k stars or so):

- https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant

- https://github.com/channelcat/sanic

- https://github.com/pypa/pipenv

- https://github.com/google/python-fire

- https://github.com/explosion/spaCy

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Click is nice, but for my money, Fire is what Click should have been. https://github.com/google/python-fire