[Tutor] Argparse and how best to use it

[Mark Lawrence]

On 24/10/2013 16:38, Paradox wrote:
> I am trying to learn about argparse and how best to incorporate it into
> my scripts.  I am using Python 2.7.5 on Ubuntu 13.10.
>
> It seems from the argparse tutorial that all the arguments are processed
> as global variables.  Is that the standard way to do it or do you
> normally (when doing real projects and not writing tutorials) process
> the arguments in the main loop of the script?
>
> thomas
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Mark Lawrence