Is vars() the most useless Python built-in ever?

[Peter Otten]

Manolo Martínez wrote:

> On 12/02/15 at 08:33pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Manolo Martínez
>> > This... is true. I could have sworn that's not the way argparse behaved
>> > when I wrote that snippet, but I've been very wrong before about
>> > similar things. Anyway my main() function looks much better now :)
>> 
>> I would recommend not using argparse directly. Pick up a wrapper like
>> clize, and then define everything through docstrings.
>> 
>> Clize usage example:
>> https://github.com/Rosuav/LetMeKnow/blob/master/letmeknow.py
>> 
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/clize
> 
> I try to do as much as I can with standard library tools. As a user, I
> find it somewhat off-putting when a tiny project asks you to install any
> number of seemingly unrelated libraries. But clize does look like a good
> idea, thanks for the pointer.

Same here ;)