Title: Build Command-Line Interfaces With Python's argparse – Real Python
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Description: In this step-by-step Python tutorial, you'll learn how to take your command-line Python scripts to the next level by adding a convenient command-line interface (CLI) that you can write with the argparse module from the standard library.
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