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Showing posts with label optparse command line arguments python. Show all posts
Showing posts with label optparse command line arguments python. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 January 2011

Parsing commands from the command prompt

Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional whilst an excellent and lengthy book doesn't cover in any detail parsing commands from the command prompt (whilst it tells us optparse exists - it doesn't have the space to explain how to use it).  The Python Documentation whilst detailed is "hard work" - and I've now discovered a much better tutorial on optparse - which will enable some refinement of the next iteration of software.