Superseded Modules

The modules described in this chapter are deprecated and only kept for backwards compatibility. They have been superseded by other modules.

• optparse — Parser for command line options
  • Background
    • Terminology
    • What are options for?
    • What are positional arguments for?
  • Tutorial
    • Understanding option actions
    • The store action
    • Handling boolean (flag) options
    • Other actions
    • Default values
    • Generating help
      • Grouping Options
    • Printing a version string
    • How optparse handles errors
    • Putting it all together
  • Reference Guide
    • Creating the parser
    • Populating the parser
    • Defining options
    • Option attributes
    • Standard option actions
    • Standard option types
    • Parsing arguments
    • Querying and manipulating your option parser
    • Conflicts between options
    • Cleanup
    • Other methods
  • Option Callbacks
    • Defining a callback option
    • How callbacks are called
    • Raising errors in a callback
    • Callback example 1: trivial callback
    • Callback example 2: check option order
    • Callback example 3: check option order (generalized)
    • Callback example 4: check arbitrary condition
    • Callback example 5: fixed arguments
    • Callback example 6: variable arguments
  • Extending optparse
    • Adding new types
    • Adding new actions
• imp — Access the import internals
  • Examples