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Python composable command line interface toolkit

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Dominant language: Python
License: BSD-3-Clause
Last GitHub push: Sep 6, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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More private utilities that need to be marked and public api deprecated Open

typing

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pallets/click#3847 · 8 comments · Opened Sep 6, 2026
`click.edit` on Windows throws WinError 14001 or 87 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

pallets/click#3840 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Increasing utilities quality and documentation Open

docs typing

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pallets/click#3696 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 16, 2026
Automatically append ellipsis (`...`) to metavars when `multiple=True` in options Open

help output

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

pallets/click#3652 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2026
Migrate sentinels to use Python 3.15's PEP 661 `sentinel` built-in with typing_extensions backport Open

typing

pallets/click#3406 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened May 4, 2026
`HelpFormatter.write_usage` breaks options at a hyphen Open

help output

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

pallets/click#3362 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 21, 2026
Remove deprecated code for 9.0 Open

parsing

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

pallets/click#3156 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 22, 2025
Click 9.0 Open

parsing

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pallets/click#3154 · 7 comments · Opened Nov 22, 2025
WIP: Help page customization low level api Open

help output

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

pallets/click#3097 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 28, 2025
Document help page generation for maintainers Open

help output

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pallets/click#3094 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 27, 2025
Help (--help) page customization high level design Open

help output

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pallets/click#3089 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2025
Add Screenshot workflow Open

docs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pallets/click#3081 · 18 comments · Opened Sep 22, 2025
Add glossary of terms to click reference docs Open

docs

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

pallets/click#3077 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 21, 2025
Introduction to the command line tutorial Open

docs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

pallets/click#3076 · 21 comments · Opened Sep 21, 2025
Add support for `set` and `frozenset` (and `dict`?) as native Click types Open

tests typing

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pallets/click#3036 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2025
Support `FORCE_COLOR` and `NO_COLOR` environment variables Open

help output

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pallets/click#3022 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 30, 2025
Improve text wrapping Open

help output

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pallets/click#3016 · Opened Jul 25, 2025
Impossible to get single newlines in help text Open

help output

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pallets/click#3010 · 9 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2025
Add output of get_usage() to get_info_dict() Open

parsing

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pallets/click#2992 · Opened Jul 4, 2025
Add e2e completion testing Open

shell completion tests

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pallets/click#2917 · 4 comments · Opened May 14, 2025
Add help string formatters that don't use escaped characters. Open

help output

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

pallets/click#2882 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 9, 2025
Allow epilog without indentation. Open

help output

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pallets/click#2881 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 9, 2025
Method used to build prompts under the hood does not allow for full format customization Open

prompt

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pallets/click#2875 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 27, 2025
The call stack is displayed when an exception is returned when an invalid parameter is displayed during command line association. Open

parsing

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pallets/click#2853 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 5, 2025
Long option completion with = broken Open

shell completion

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

pallets/click#2847 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 23, 2025
Document existing parser fully Open

docs parsing

pallets/click#2835 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 6, 2025
Meta Issue for Future Parser Changes Open

docs parsing

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

pallets/click#2834 · 15 comments · Opened Jan 4, 2025
Opinion: Arguments should not be required for Variadics Open

parsing

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pallets/click#2824 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 15, 2024
Meta Issue for Project Opinions Open

docs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

pallets/click#2823 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2024
Invoking a command does not fail on missing arguments Open

docs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pallets/click#2801 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 7, 2024
Multi-value options override the value returned from `callback` when not all specified Open

parsing

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pallets/click#2786 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 9, 2024
Allow attaching dynamic parameters to contexts Open

parsing

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pallets/click#2783 · Opened Sep 28, 2024
[Feature Request] Allow to to emit colored click.secho() text to a pipeline. Open

help output

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pallets/click#2781 · Opened Sep 27, 2024
Indicate multiple use options in help Open

help output

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

pallets/click#2778 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 18, 2024
Allow `nargs=-1` in options with a non-whitespace separator Open

parsing

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pallets/click#2771 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 2, 2024
Unexposed option name is `None` when the parameter name is not a python identifier Open

parsing

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

pallets/click#2768 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2024
get_parameter_source does not work with invoke or forward Open

parsing

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pallets/click#2753 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 15, 2024
Display exception notes when raising `ClickException` Open

parsing

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

pallets/click#2740 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 5, 2024
Better i18n with gettext: use class-based API Open

parsing

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

pallets/click#2706 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 16, 2024
feature: allow substituting command_path in command help and epilog text Open

help output

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pallets/click#2683 · Opened Feb 29, 2024
Allow Hiding of Range Values for IntRange Option in --help Open

help output

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pallets/click#2679 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 22, 2024
Support for Automatically Parsing Negative Number Arguments Open

docs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

pallets/click#2676 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 13, 2024
Eager open/close of a LazyFile for error handling can make fifo reading fail Open

parsing

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pallets/click#2645 · Opened Dec 4, 2023
Click evaluates default callbacks during tab-completion Open

shell completion

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pallets/click#2614 · Opened Sep 28, 2023
Make `click.Context` generic for `obj` Open

typing

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

pallets/click#2493 · 5 comments · 12 reactions · Opened Apr 16, 2023
for argument type File, `lazy` does not work on Windows Open

parsing

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pallets/click#2429 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 8, 2023
[Feature] `ClickException` message without color would be helpful Open

help output

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

pallets/click#2419 · Opened Dec 20, 2022
resolve_command fails if cmd is None Open

parsing

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

pallets/click#2402 · Opened Nov 9, 2022
[Feature] for embedding Click with custom stdout/stderr instances Open

parsing

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pallets/click#2361 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 24, 2022
[Feature] embedding Click inside asyncio-based apps Open

parsing

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pallets/click#2360 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 24, 2022

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