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From: Marco <m.b@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Required arguments in argparse: at least one of a group
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:02:12 +0100
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On 03/23/2013 05:27 PM, Rob Day wrote:

> I don't know about argparse, but if you use docopt
> (http://docopt.org/) then this is easy to do with something like:
>
> """Usage:
>
> finder.py --file <myfile> --dir <mydir>
> finder.py --pattern <mypattern> --dir <mydir>
> finder.py --file <myfile> --pattern <mypattern> --dir <mydir>
> """

Thanks Rob, but I was looking for a solution in the stdlib

-- 
Marco