Equivalent of perl's Pod::Usage?

[Adam Funk]

I'm using to using Pod::Usage in my Perl programs (a snipped example
is shown below, if you're interested) to generate a little man page
when they are called with the -h option.

Is there an equivalent in Python?

Thanks,
Adam


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use Pod::Usage;

getopts("ha:b:c", \%option) ;

if ($option{h}) {
    pod2usage(-verbose => 2);
    die("\n\n");
}

# REST OF PROGRAM HERE!

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=head1 Documentation

=head2 Synopsis

COMMAND OPTION(S) [FILE(S)]

=head2 Options

=over

=item -h

Get this help.

...

=back

=cut
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