Source: python-configargparse Section: python Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Python Team Uploaders: Debian Let's Encrypt Team , Harlan Lieberman-Berg Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-sequence-python3, python3-all, python3-pytest, python3-setuptools, python3-yaml Standards-Version: 4.6.2 Rules-Requires-Root: no Homepage: https://github.com/zorro3/ConfigArgParse Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/configargparse.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/configargparse Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-python Package: python3-configargparse Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends} Description: replacement for argparse with config files and environment variables Applications with more than a handful of user-settable options are best configured through a combination of command line args, config files, hard-coded defaults, and in some cases, environment variables. . Python’s command line parsing modules such as argparse have very limited support for config files and environment variables, so this module extends argparse to add these features.