[Chicago] Option Parsers, was: Re: __name__ == "__main__"

[Pete]

On Friday October 26 2007 5:25:59 pm skip at pobox.com wrote:
> Replacing getopt with optparse if I get *really* formal.  (I know optparse
> is "better" for some definition of that word, but my fingers know how to
> type getopt-using code with little or no involvement on the part of my
> brain.)

And argparse is better than optparse: http://argparse.python-hosting.com/

Basically, it takes all of the common things you do with optparse, and sticks 
them in a library.  Both in terms of option parsing & basic post-processing 
of the options afterwards (opening a file, say).

Though my favorite feature is easy svn-style subcommands.

--Pete

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