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Dear Peter, and Steven, thanks again for engaging with my script. I'm
fully aware that this is not the tutor mailing list :)

Peter Otten wrote:
> As far as I can see in a correctly written script the AttributeError cannot 
> be triggered by the user as argparse handles this case automatically by 
> showing the help. 

This... is true. I could have sworn that's not the way argparse behaved
when I wrote that snippet, but I've been very wrong before about similar
things. Anyway my main() function looks much better now :)

> By the way, I recommend coverage.py to find dead code. I have not used
> it for too long, and I regret it ;)

I blush to confess I would first need to write a test suite. But yeah,
will do both, thanks for the recommendation.

Cheers,
Manolo