| The argparse module makes it easy to write user friendly command line |
| interfaces. |
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| The program defines what arguments it requires, and argparse will figure out |
| how to parse those out of sys.argv. The argparse module also automatically |
| generates help and usage messages and issues errors when users give the |
| program invalid arguments. |
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| As of Python >= 2.7 and >= 3.2, the argparse module is maintained within the |
| Python standard library. For users who still need to support Python < 2.7 or |
| < 3.2, it is also provided as a separate package, which tries to stay |
| compatible with the module in the standard library, but also supports older |
| Python versions. |
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| argparse is licensed under the Python license, for details see LICENSE.txt. |
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| Compatibility |
| ------------- |
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| argparse should work on Python >= 2.3, it was tested on: |
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| * 2.3.5, 2.4.4, 2.5.5, 2.6.5 and 2.7 |
| * 3.1, 3.2 |
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| Installation |
| ------------ |
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| Try one of these: |
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| python setup.py install |
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| easy_install argparse |
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| pip install argparse |
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| putting argparse.py in some directory listed in sys.path should also work |
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| Bugs |
| ---- |
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| If you find a bug, please try to reproduce it with python 2.7. |
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| If it happens there also, please file a bug in the python.org issue tracker. |
| If it does not happen in 2.7, file a bug in the argparse package issue tracker. |
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