Paperbush is a super concise argument parsing tool that simplifies the process of creating command-line argument parsers in Python. With Paperbush, you can define your parser in just a single line of code using a custom built-in language, which is then translated directly into the built-in argparse module equivalent. This means that in most cases, moving to Paperbush is just a matter of changing the parser definition, as Paperbush.parse_args() returns an argparse.Namespace object.

Paperbush is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip, or any other Python package manager:

$ pip install paperbush

(Some systems may require you to use pip3, python -m pip, or py -m pip)

• short name inferrence
• mutually exclusive groups
• choices and the count action
• default values
• required arguments
• type conversion
• help messages

Currently Paperbush has no support for:

• aliases
• subparsers

Paperbush is licensed under the MIT License.