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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:53:23 -0500
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On 10/13/12 21:25, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Not being Dutch, I don't know whether the obvious way to do command line 
> argument handling is the getopt module or argparse. But there certainly 
> isn't *only one way* to do command line argument handling.

As an aside, I just watched a fascinating video[1] on docopt[2]
which seems like an amazingly simple way to build command-line UIs.
 I haven't toyed with it yet, but I just wanted to share my "wow,
that's slick" experience with the list.

-tkc


[1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXhcPJK5cMc

[2]
http://docopt.org/