To build command-line programs, you can use tools such as docopt, Python Fire, plac, and cliff. Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows ...

Most hacker types don’t mind a command line interface, but very few ordinary users appreciate them. However, if you write command line programs in Python, Gooey can help.

What we’ll create is a simple command-line application to store software licences. I’ll be demonstrating on Pop!_OS Linux, but this will work on any platform that supports Python.

Don’t use PyInstaller’s –onefile mode: PyInstaller includes a command line switch, --onefile, that packs your entire application into a single self-extracting executable.

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start.