Source: python-plac Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team Uploaders: Andreas Tille , Mo Zhou Section: python Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11~), dh-python, python3-all, python3-pytest, python3-sqlsoup Standards-Version: 4.2.1 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/python-plac Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/python-plac.git Homepage: https://github.com/micheles/plac Package: python3-plac Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends} Description: Smartest command line arguments parser in the world Technically plac is just a simple wrapper over argparse which hides most of its complexity by using a declarative interface: the argument parser is inferred rather than written down by imperatively. . plac is targetting especially unsophisticated users, programmers, sys-admins, scientists and in general people writing throw-away scripts for themselves, choosing the command-line isurprisingly scalable upwards, even without using the underlying argparse.