Pythonic/idiomatic?

[Martin Gregorie]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:11:23 +0000, Seebs wrote:

> On 2010-11-09, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel at sequans.com> wrote:
>> One pythonic way to do it, is to use an option parser.
> 
> That seems like massive overkill -- I don't care about any of the other
> options.  It seems like it'd result in doing more work to get and then
> extract the options, and most of that would be discarded instnatly.
>
I've always used an extended version of getopt() in C. I was so surprised 
to see that there's nothing equivalent in Java that I wrote my own and 
was consequently was very pleased to find that Python already has the 
optparse module. Using it is a no-brainer, particularly as it makes quite 
a good fist of being self-documenting and of spitting out a nicely 
formatted chunk of help text when asked to do so.


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