14.3.3.7 Parsing arguments
The whole point of creating and populating an OptionParser is to call its parse_args() method:
(options, args) = parser.parse_args(args=None, options=None)
where the input parameters are
- the list of arguments to process (default:
sys.argv[1:]) - object to store option arguments in (default: a new instance of optparse.Values)
and the return values are
- the same object that was passed in as
options, or the optparse.Values instance created by optparse - the leftover positional arguments after all options have been processed
The most common usage is to supply neither keyword argument. If you
supply options, it will be modified with repeated setattr()
calls (roughly one for every option argument stored to an option
destination) and returned by parse_args().
If parse_args() encounters any errors in the argument list, it calls the OptionParser's error() method with an appropriate end-user error message. This ultimately terminates your process with an exit status of 2 (the traditional Unix exit status for command-line errors).
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Release 2.5, documentation updated on 19th September, 2006.