argparseEasy Examples

Parse command-line arguments with type checking and help messages

Getting started with argparse

Basic import and usage of the argparse module.

python
import argparse

# argparse is for CLI argument parsing
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Example CLI")
parser.add_argument("--name", default="World")
parser.add_argument("--count", type=int, default=1)

# Simulate parsing (can't use sys.argv in Pyodide)
args = parser.parse_args(["--name", "Python", "--count", "3"])
print(f"Hello, {args.name}! (x{args.count})")

The argparse module is part of Python's standard library. Parse command-line arguments with type checking and help messages.

Common argparse operations

Frequently used functions from the argparse module.

python
# More argparse examples
import argparse

print(f"argparse module loaded successfully")
print(f"Location: {argparse.__name__}")
print(f"Has {len(dir(argparse))} attributes")

These are the most commonly used features of the argparse module.

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