Pythonx - argparse example

gistfile1.py

import argparse

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# Create the argument parser
# http://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html
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parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Parse arguments")

parser.add_argument("input_file", action="store", help="File to read", metavar="INFILE")
parser.add_argument("output_file", action="store", default="output.txt", help="File to write", metavar="OUTFILE")

args = parser.parse_args()

input_file = args.input_file
output_file = args.output_file