You can also use logging module to implement flags such as `--debug` and `--verbose`.
* Although you can use other fancier tools for parsing command-line arguments, the standard [argparse](https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html) module is good enough for most tools.
It has decent support for [sub-commands](https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#sub-commands), and the linked document describes a very nice pattern to define functions for sub-commands, under "One particularly effective way of handling sub-commands..."
+ Try to provide help texts for parameters that may not be obvious.
+ argparse supports a lot of different argument types, such as enumerated options, integers, file names, and others, that provide a lot of functionality out of the box.
* Remember that the standard [json](https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html) module is built-in.
You can use it to add a mode to your tool that generates JSON output instead of human-readable output, for easy automation of your tool, maybe using [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) or [fx](https://github.com/antonmedv/fx).
* Use the standard [subprocess](https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html) module to execute other commands.