Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python

I build a lot of command-line tools in Python. It’s become my favorite way of quickly turning a piece of code into something I can use myself and package up for other people to use too.

My biggest CLI projects are sqlite-utils, LLM, shot-scraper and Datasette - but I have dozens of others and I build new ones at the rate of at least one a month. A fun recent example is blip-caption, a tiny CLI wrapper …

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