On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:11:23 +0000, Seebs wrote: > On 2010-11-09, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic...@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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