Source: python-plac Maintainer: Debian Python Team Uploaders: Andreas Tille , Section: python Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-sequence-python3, python3-all, python3-setuptools Build-Depends-Indep: python3-pytest , python3-sphinx , python3-sphinx-rtd-theme Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-pybuild Standards-Version: 4.7.2 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-plac Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-plac.git Homepage: https://github.com/ialbert/plac Package: python3-plac Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends} Built-Using: ${sphinxdoc:Built-Using} 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 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 is surprisingly scalable upwards, even without using the underlying argparse.