From 1e6de1892bf750cd32a95cc0284cd05792d2413c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marco Bonetti Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:47:27 -0500 Subject: libraries/argparse: Added (optparse sub for python) --- libraries/argparse/README | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) create mode 100644 libraries/argparse/README (limited to 'libraries/argparse/README') diff --git a/libraries/argparse/README b/libraries/argparse/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d084cfa857 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/argparse/README @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +The argparse python module provides an easy declarative interface for +creating command line tools. Argparse knows how to parse the arguments +and flags from sys.argv, convert arg strings into objects for your program, +format and print informative help messages, and much more... + +The argparse module improves on the standard library optparse module in +a number of ways including handling positional arguments, support for +sub-commands, allowing alternative option prefixes like + and /, +handling zero-or-more and one-or-more style arguments, producing more +informative usage messages, and providing a much simpler interface for +custom types and actions. -- cgit v1.2.3