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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Plac: Parsing the Command Line the Easy Way
:Author: Michele Simionato
:E-mail: michele.simionato@gmail.com
-:Date: August 2010
+:Date: June 2011
:Download page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plac
:Project page: http://plac.googlecode.com/hg/doc/plac.html
:Requires: Python 2.3+
@@ -707,9 +707,12 @@ library and as such it shares many features with the module cmd2_ by
Catherine Devlin. However, this is completely coincidental, since I became
aware of the cmd2_ module only after writing plac_.
-Command-line argument parsers keep coming out; between the newcomers
-I will notice `marrow.script`_ by Alice Bevan-McGregor, which is quite
+Command-line argument parsers keep coming out; between the newcomers I
+will notice `marrow.script`_ by Alice Bevan-McGregor, which is quite
similar to plac_ in spirit, but does not rely on argparse_ at all.
+Argh_ by Andrey Mikhaylenko is also worth mentioning: it is also based
+on argparse_, it came after plac_ and I must give credit to the author
+for the choice of the name, much funnier than plac!
The future
-------------------------------
@@ -765,7 +768,8 @@ Having little imagination, I decided to rename everything again to plac,
an anagram of clap: since it is a non-existing English name, I hope nobody
will steal it from me!
-That's all, I hope you will enjoy working with plac_!
+That concludes the section about the basic usage of plac_. You are now ready to
+read about the advanced usage.
.. _argparse: http://argparse.googlecode.com
.. _optparse: http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html
@@ -786,3 +790,4 @@ That's all, I hope you will enjoy working with plac_!
.. _cmd: http://docs.python.org/library/cmd.html
.. _marrow.script: https://github.com/pulp/marrow.script
.. _commandline: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/commandline
+.. _argh: http://packages.python.org/argh