Q's on my first python script

[Marius Gedminas]

On May 11, 12:30 pm, Nick Craig-Wood <n... at craig-wood.com> wrote:
>     def __init__(self):
>         usage = '''Usage: %prog [options] YYMMDD
>            %prog -h|--help
> '''
>         parser = OptionParser(usage=usage)
>         parser.add_option("-n", "--no-newline", dest="nonl",
>                           action="store_true", help="omit newline in output")
>         (options, args) = parser.parse_args();
>         try:
>             weekday = self.wkday_abbrev(args[0])
>         except BadDateString, e:
>             print usage
>             print e
>             sys.exit(1)

I would recommend printing error messages to sys.stderr.

BTW, in this particular case you may want to use

             parser.error(e)

instead of print + sys.exit.

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Marius Gedminas