[Tutor] OptionParser

[Mina Nozar]

Thank you Parsad.

I am using Python 2.7.1+

You are right, looks like optparse is replaced by argparse.

My problem was that I was checking output and not options.output.

cheers,
Mina

On 11-09-20 02:27 PM, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
>> from optparse import OptionParser
> I am not sure what version of Python you are using but from 2.7+ optparse is deprercated. You may want to use that if you can.
>
>> I don't really understand what dest and action in the arguments to parser.add_option mean.
> Here is your usage:
>>>> parser = OptionParser(usage="blahblahblah")
>>>> parser.add_option("-f", "--file", dest="filename")
> <Option at 0x8332eb8: -f/--file>
>>>> (options, args) = parser.parse_args(['-f filename.csv']) # test in interpreter
>>>> options.filename
> ' filename.csv' # Note the space before filename
>>>> print options.filename
>   filename.csv
>
> See the documentation: http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html
>
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