TIL: Common Arguments With Typer January 17th, 2022

I mostly use Typer to write CLIs in Python. I find it mildly easier than Click, but one thing I hadn’t worked out until today was how to implement common options with subcommands. That is, I had code like this:: import typer cli = typer.Typer() @cli.command() def all(pinboard_token: str = typer.Option(None, envvar="PINBOARD_TOKEN")): ... @cli.command() def new(pinboard_token: str = typer.Option(None, envvar="PINBOARD_TOKEN")): ... if __name__ == '__main___': cli() But I wanted --pinboard-token to be an option on the main command, not on the subcommands.…