python getopt functionality

[M.N.A.Smadi]

It is not clear to me if i can define `mandatory' options? That sounds 
strange but let say that the command `requires ' a value for -z or --zoo 
(either or should be find but one and only one of them MUST be 
present).  Can i do that with resorting to using if statements?

thanks
moe smadi
Fredrik Lundh wrote:

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>>I have a perl script that I need to port to python. The script takes
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>>command line arguments based on the -flag preceeding the argument?
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>http://docs.python.org/lib/module-getopt.html
>http://docs.python.org/lib/module-optparse.html
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