Nearly all command line Python programs use argparse to simplify picking options and arguments off the command line as well as providing some help. The Gooey decorator picks up all your options ...

(The below post is brought to you from years of being irritated by other programmers' quirky command line syntax, and my acknowledgement that for many small apps, doing it "right" can take up way ...

Thankfully, Python has a number of modules to deal with command-line arguments. My personal favorite is OptionParser. OptionParser is part of the optparse module that is provided by the standard ...

Now let's take a look at a slightly more useful example to see how Python can be embedded into a real program. If you take a look at Listing 4, you'll see a small program that allows the user to ...

The py launcher—or just py for short—is a shortcut to all the installed versions of Python on your system. With a command-line switch, you can see at a glance all the Python interpreters you ...