Modern Python Projects Transcripts
Chapter: Let's build a CLI
Lecture: CLI applications
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One popular family of programs are command line tools, so programs that run in your terminal,
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even though we are used to click things in a graphical interface or in a browser CLI tools are still very popular,
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especially among programmers. A perfect example of such a tool is Git. There are many different graphical interfaces to manage your git repositories,
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but a lot of people prefer to run commands in the terminal. Another good example of a CLI is black, flake 8 or pylint.
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You can run black command in your terminal, and it will format all Python files in the current directory, according to the PEP 8 rules.