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In this article we’re going to take a look at some of the quality of life improvements Click offers to build command line interfaces. There’s a couple of things it makes a lot easier for users compared to building your own CLI - e.g. text styling or progress bars.

I’m going to show you some of the more advanced patterns and uses for the Python CLI building library Click. These include custom input validation, multi-level CLIs and command groups.

In this article I’m going to give you an introduction to the Python library Click which allows you to build pretty command line interfaces in no time.