Determine actually given command line arguments

[Wayne Werner]

On Wed, 15 May 2013, Henry Leyh wrote:
> Yes, I was trying that and it sort of works with strings if I use something 
> sufficiently improbable like "__UNSELECTED__" as default.  But it gets 
> difficult with boolean or even number arguments where you just may not have 
> valid "improbable" defaults.  You could now say, so what, it's the default 
> anyway.  But in my program I would like to distinguish between given and not 
> given arguments rather than between default and non-default.

Have you looked into docopt? It's pretty awesome, and might really help in 
this case.

HTH,
-W