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diff --git a/libraries/argparse/README b/libraries/argparse/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d084cfa85726 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/argparse/README @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +The argparse python module provides an easy declarative interface for +creating command line tools. Argparse knows how to parse the arguments +and flags from sys.argv, convert arg strings into objects for your program, +format and print informative help messages, and much more... + +The argparse module improves on the standard library optparse module in +a number of ways including handling positional arguments, support for +sub-commands, allowing alternative option prefixes like + and /, +handling zero-or-more and one-or-more style arguments, producing more +informative usage messages, and providing a much simpler interface for +custom types and actions. |