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| author | steven.bethard <devnull@localhost> | 2009-07-26 17:21:37 +0000 |
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| committer | steven.bethard <devnull@localhost> | 2009-07-26 17:21:37 +0000 |
| commit | 891869dfe9cf298950ea1490d846986070b40e2a (patch) | |
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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
+The argparse module provides an easy, declarative interface for
+creating command line tools, which knows how to:
+ * parse the arguments and flags from sys.argv
+ * convert arg strings into objects for your program
+ * format and print informative help messages
+ * and much more...
+
+The argparse module improves on the standard library optparse 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 2.3 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:
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