python optparse example
September 25th, 2008 by webstersprodigy
This is a short commented optparse example
#!/usr/bin/env python
from optparse import OptionParser
#action, type, dest (destination), and help, default
#can optionally pass usage in here as a string
parser = OptionParser()
#notice the first arguments are a list - they define the synonomous commands
#destination is the most important - it is what your file is
#help is for the --help options
parser.add_option("-f", "--file", dest="filename",
help="write report to FILE", metavar="FILE")
#action store_true and store_false are common - they can be used for boolean flags
# other actions include store_const, append, count, callback
parser.add_option("-q", "--quiet",
action="store_false", dest="verbose", default=True,
help="don't print status messages to stdout")
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
print options
print options.filename
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