[Tutor] Argparse and how best to use it

[Mark Lawrence]

On 24/10/2013 23:45, Alex Kleider wrote:
> On 2013-10-24 08:38, 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?
>
>
> Some one on this list recently recommended docopt rather than argparse.
> I've been playing with it and find it far superior although there are
> still a few issues that I haven't figured out.
>

Alex, if you've still problems I'd be inclined to ask on the main Python 
mailing list as you're far more likely to get answers than here. 
Failing that how about approach the author direct?  From the Development 
section here https://github.com/docopt/docopt it's vladimir at keleshev.com

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Mark Lawrence