``sys.argv[1:]``, or of some other list provided as a substitute for
``sys.argv[1:]``".
-option
+option
an argument used to supply extra information to guide or customize the execution
of a program. There are many different syntaxes for options; the traditional
Unix syntax is a hyphen ("-") followed by a single letter, e.g. ``"-x"`` or
action="store_true", dest="verbose", default=True,
help="make lots of noise [default]")
parser.add_option("-q", "--quiet",
- action="store_false", dest="verbose",
+ action="store_false", dest="verbose",
help="be vewwy quiet (I'm hunting wabbits)")
parser.add_option("-f", "--filename",
metavar="FILE", help="write output to FILE"),
setattr(parser.values, option.dest, value)
[...]
- parser.add_option("-c", "--callback",
+ parser.add_option("-c", "--callback", dest="vararg_attr",
action="callback", callback=vararg_callback)
The main weakness with this particular implementation is that negative numbers