Mastering Object-oriented Python

Parsing the command line with argparse

The general approach to using argparse involves four steps.

1. Create ArgumentParser. We can provide you with overall information about the command-line interface here. This might include a description, format changes for the displayed options and arguments, and whether or not -h is the "help" option. Generally, we only need to provide the description; the rest of the options have sensible defaults.
2. Define the command-line options and arguments. This is done by adding arguments with the ArgumentParser.add_argument() method function.
3. Parse the sys.argv command line to create a namespace object that details the options, option arguments and overall command-line arguments.
4. Use the resulting namespace object to configure ...