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Support running scripts with default arguments

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I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.
I have searched the documentation and believe that my question is not covered.

Feature Request

I would like to run a script like poetry run test, which should run pytest package.

However, I could not find a way to add an argument to the script.

[tool.poetry.scripts]
test = "pytest:main"

It would be great if scripts had default arguments.

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:15 (13 by maintainers)

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castarcocommented, Aug 9, 2021

Disclaimer: this is a short rant (skip it if you’re looking for a useful comment), about Python, not Poetry. Sorry, but I had to say it.

@ypicard you’re right. Python is overcomplicated when it comes to packaging and configuration, with few benefits in exchange for that extra complexity. It has been like that for around 20 years, and the solutions that are usually proposed don’t improve much over the previous state of things.

The biggest problem is that most prolific Python developers already have a ton of hacks in place, and they don’t feel the pain because of those hacks and memorized tricks (it reminds me to the Assembler programmers that refused using C, because they already learnt a lot of smart tricks to overcome the major pain points); then a lot of newbies arrive to the community, without prior experience on other development environments… and they end up believing that this state of things is normal, or “okish”. And it’s not, it’s a total clusterfuck.

Poetry makes it a bit nicer, but not much; as it’s not its responsibility, to be honest.

Every time I’ve said that in public I received a shower of negative comments, and probably other people had the same experience. So I lost any faith on the project, since criticism is not well taken. I abandoned Python years ago because of that, and I only use it when I’m forced to.

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ypicardcommented, Jun 17, 2021

Coming from the Javascript ecosystem, I find it hard to believe a discussion is even needed for this kind of topic. How can native arguments not be natively supported, and what are the arguments against implementing it? There are so many forum threads trying to figure out how to enable this, I think this just shows the community would like to see this supported by default.

Adding other scripts using other tools just feels like a hack.

I would really like to understand the difference in philosophy between the 2 communities here.

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