======================= Announcing argparse 1.1 ======================= The argparse module provides an easy, declarative interface for creating command line tools, which knows how to: * parse the arguments and flags from sys.argv * convert arg strings into objects for your program * format and print informative help messages * and much more... The argparse module improves on the standard library optparse module in a number of ways including: * handling positional arguments * supporting sub-commands * allowing alternative option prefixes like + and / * handling zero-or-more and one-or-more style arguments * producing more informative usage messages * providing a much simpler interface for custom types and actions Download argparse ================= The argparse homepage has links for source, MSI and single file distributions of argparse: http://code.google.com/p/argparse/ About this release ================== This is the final release of argparse before its move to the Python 2.7 and 3.2 standard libraries. Major enhancements in this release: * ArgumentParser(..., version=XXX) is deprecated. Instead, you should use add_argument(..., action='version') which is more flexible and does not force you to accept -v/--version as your version flags. * Usage and help (but not version) messages are now written to stdout instead of stderr, consistent with most existing programs. * User defined types passed as a type= argument can now raise an ArgumentTypeError to provide a custom error message. * Namespace objects now support containment, e.g. "'foo' in args". Various bugs were also squashed, e.g. "from argparse import *" now works. See the news file for detailed information: http://argparse.googlecode.com/svn/tags/r11/NEWS.txt Enjoy! Steve -- Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that? --- The Hiphopopotamus