#!/usr/bin/env python # Demonstrates Optik's help-formatting capabilities: # - option groups # - ability to select different help-formatting objects from optik import OptionParser, OptionGroup from optik.help import IndentedHelpFormatter, TitledHelpFormatter if 0: formatter = IndentedHelpFormatter() else: formatter = TitledHelpFormatter() usage = "%prog [options] [filename ...]" description = """\ This is a brief paragraph describing what this program does. Since this program doesn't do anything, this paragraph doesn't say much. """ parser = OptionParser(usage=usage, version="%prog 0.0", formatter=formatter, description=description, epilog="Please report bugs to /dev/null@example.com.", ) group = parser.add_option_group("Basic options", description="These are not very advanced.") group.add_option("-l", "--local", action="store_true", dest="local", help="show only files in the current directory") group.add_option("-R", "--recursive", action="store_false", dest="local", help="recurse into subdirectories [default]") group.add_option("-f", dest='filename', metavar="FILE", help="read CVS history from FILE, not from running " "\"cvs log\"") group = parser.add_option_group("Revision selection options") group.add_option("-r", dest='revisions', metavar="REVISIONS", help="pass directly to CVS") group.add_option("-s", "--since", dest='since_tag', metavar="TAG", help="show only revisions after TAG") group.add_option("--range", nargs=2, metavar="TAG1 TAG2", help=("show only revisions since TAG1, up to and " "including TAG2")) parser.parse_args(["--help"])