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 implementing all 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.
There are three separate modules for parsing command-line arguments using different styles. getopt implements the same low-level processing model available to C programs and shell scripts. It has fewer features than other option-parsing libraries, but that simplicity and familiarity make it a popular choice. optparse is a ...
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