Chapter 14. Application Building Blocks
The strength of Python’s standard library is its size. It includes implementations of so many aspects of a program’s structure that developers can concentrate on what makes their application unique, instead of having to write all of the basic pieces over and over again. This chapter covers some of the more frequently reused building blocks that solve problems common to so many applications.
argparse (page 888) is an interface for parsing and validating command-line arguments. It supports converting arguments from strings to integers and other types, running callbacks when an option is encountered, setting default values for options not provided by the user, and automatically producing usage instructions ...
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