Python Argument Parser

Python_arg_parser.py

import argparse
# Initialize argument parse object
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="There are two flags, -f for fraud prevalence and -p to check prevalence in the output file")

# This would be an argument you could pass in from command line
parser.add_argument("-f", "--fraud", action="store", type = float, default = 0.2, help = "Enter the prevalence as a float, the default value is 0.2")
parser.add_argument("-p", "--prevalence", action="store_true", default = False, help = "use the flag to print the prevalence")

def main() :
	inargs = parser.parse_args()
	# Get the prevalence from command line
	print "Sexy : " ,inargs.fraud, inargs.prevalence

if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()