ANNOUNCE: Optik 1.0 (new command-line parsing library)

[Oleg Broytmann]

Hi!

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 09:33:08AM -0500, Greg Ward wrote:
>   from optik import OptionParser
>   [...]
>   parser = OptionParser()
>   parser.add_option("-f", "--file",
>                     action="store", type="string", dest="filename",
>                     help="write report to FILE", metavar="FILE")
> 
>   (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
> 
> With these few lines of code, users of your script can now do the
> "usual thing" on the command-line:
> 
>   <yourscript> --file outfile
> 
> (All of these result in
>   options.filename == "outfile"

   Can it handle multiple arguments for an option?

<yourscript> --file outfile1 outfile2

   Or mix options and arguments?

<yourscript> --file outfile infile -q

   Handle multiple args with the same name?

<yourscript> --file outfile1 -f outfile2

Oleg.
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