argparse — Easy Examples
Parse command-line arguments with type checking and help messages
Getting started with argparse
Basic import and usage of the argparse module.
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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.
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# 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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