Question

I normally use argparse for parsing arguments,but it looks like its introduced since 2.7,am currently on 2.6.5,I cant upgrade to newer due to company policy,i need someinputs on how else can I parse the options given below,is there an easier and quick way to convert to below to parse options for 2.6.5?please suggest

import os
import sys, getopt
import argparse

def main ():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Test script')
    parser.add_argument('-sau','--set',action='store',dest='set',help='<Required> Set flag',required=True)
    parser.add_argument('-bg','--base_g',action='store',dest='base_g',help='<Required> Base g',required=True)
    results = parser.parse_args()# collect cmd line args
    set = results.set
    base_g = results.base_g

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Answer 1

argparse has replaced optparse since version 2.7.

Therefore, use optparse.