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| author | steven.bethard <devnull@localhost> | 2009-03-27 16:05:43 +0000 |
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| committer | steven.bethard <devnull@localhost> | 2009-03-27 16:05:43 +0000 |
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+==============
+
+The argparse module makes writing command line tools in Python easy.
+Just briefly describe your command line interface and argparse will
+take care of the rest, including:
+
+* parsing the arguments and flags from ``sys.argv``
+* converting arg strings into objects for your program
+* formatting and printing any help messages
+* and much more ...
+
+For those familiar with the optparse module from the Python standard
+library, argparse improves on this module in a number of ways,
+including:
+
+ * handling positional arguments
+ * supporting sub-commands
+ * allowing alternative option prefixes like ``+`` and ``/``
+ * handling zero-or-more and one-or-more style arguments
+ * producing more informative usage messages
+ * providing a much simpler interface for custom types and actions
+
+REQUIREMENTS & INSTALLATION
+---------------------------
+
+The argparse module requires Python 2.4 or greater, and can be
+installed with the standard Python installation procedure:
+
+ python setup.py install
+
+
+AVAILABILITY & DOCUMENTATION
+----------------------------
+
+The latest version of argparse, along with API documentation and
+examples can be found at:
+
+ http://code.google.com/p/argparse/
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