Writing a Command-Line Tool in Python

I used to find writing command line tools tedious. Not so much the writing of the core of the tool itself, but all the peripheral stuff you had to do to actually finish one. The Language? ¶ The first issue is to pick the language to implement it in: do I use Python, which I'm intimitely familiar with, or a Unix shell script? With shell scripts, the syntax is pretty terrible, but the tool typically fits in a single file and there's hardly any overhead running them. On the other hand, making su...

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