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Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help

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On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Square brackets in a usage description often mean "optional". You may
>> want to be careful of that. There's no really good solution though.
>
> There is, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/docopt/0.6.1 :)

That appears to use <x> for a mandatory argument x, which is then
slightly ambiguous with shell redirection. But that's the best
notation I've ever seen for distinguishing mandatory args from fixed
keywords.

CrisA

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adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help brian cleere <briancleere@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 11:10 -0800
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-12-11 13:20 -0600
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 06:22 +1100
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-11 19:34 +0000
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-11 19:41 +0000
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 06:46 +1100
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-11 20:00 +0000
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 07:03 +1100
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-12-11 14:20 -0600
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-11 20:20 +0000
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Christopher Welborn <cjwelborn@live.com> - 2013-12-11 18:49 -0600
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help "M.F." <morefool@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 09:36 +0800

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