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clap, the easiest command line arguments parser in the world
============================================================

:Author: Michele Simionato
:E-mail: michele.simionato@gmail.com
:Requires: Python 2.3+
:Download page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/clap
:Installation: ``easy_install clap``
:License: BSD license

Installation
-------------

If you are lazy, just perform

$ easy_install clap

which will install just the module on your system. Notice that
Python 3 requires the easy_install version of the distribute_ project.

If you prefer to install the full distribution from source, including
the documentation, download the tarball_, unpack it and run

$ python setup.py install

in the main directory, possibly as superuser.

.. _tarball: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/clap
.. _distribute: http://packages.python.org/distribute/

Testing
--------

Run

$ python test_clap.py

or

$ nosetests test_clap

or

$ py.test test_clap

Documentation
--------------

You can choose between the `HTML version`_  and the `PDF version`_ .

.. _HTML version: http://micheles.googlecode.com/hg/clap/documentation.html
.. _PDF version: http://micheles.googlecode.com/hg/clap/documentation.pdf