python-argparse

Python command-line parsing library

The argparse module provides an easy, declarative interface for creating command line tools, which 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 * supporting sub-commands * allowing alternative option prefixes like + and / * handling zero-or-more and one-or-more style arguments * producing more informative usage messages * providing a much simpler interface for custom types and actions The latest version of argparse, along with API documentation and examples can be found at: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/argparse/">http://code.google.com/p/argparse/</a>