A few beginning questions

[Mel Wilson]

In article <xqx65m59pei.fsf at cola2.ca.boeing.com>,
Harry George <harry.g.george at boeing.com> wrote:
>"richardc" <richardc at hmgcc.gov.uk> writes:
>> Im looking for an agument parsing library (from the command line), Ive come
>> across optik and argtools.  What other ones are there are any of them any
>> good, is there a 'standard' lib for doing this.

>1. args: I use getopt, which does the job.  The idiom is:
>if __name__ == '__main__':
>    opts,pargs=getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:],'hvd',
>                 ['help','version','debug',
>                  'bb='])
>    for opt in opts:
>        if opt[0]=='-h' or opt[0]=='--help':
>            print modname+": version="+__version__
>            usage()
>            sys.exit(0)
>        elif opt[0]=='-v' or opt[0]=='--version':
>            print modname+": version="+__version__
>            sys.exit(0)
>        elif opt[0]=='-d' or opt[0]=='--debug':
>            debug_p=1
>        elif opt[0]=='--bb':
>            opt_b=opt[1]
>

Although I really would recommend one change:


     for opt, val in opts:
         if opt in ('-h', '--help'):
             print modname + ": version=" + __version__
             usage()
             sys.exit(0)
,,,
         elif opt == '--bb':
             opt_b = val



        Regards.        Mel.