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| 61 | There are several ways to populate the parser with options. The |
| 62 | preferred way is by using <code>OptionParser.add_option()</code>, as shown in |
| 63 | section <A href="optparse-tutorial.html#optparse-tutorial">6.21.2</A>, the tutorial. <tt class="method">add_option()</tt> can be called in one of two |
| 64 | ways: |
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| 68 | pass it an Option instance (as returned by <tt class="function">make_option()</tt>) |
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| 71 | </LI> |
| 72 | <LI> |
| 73 | pass it any combination of positional and keyword arguments that are |
| 74 | acceptable to <tt class="function">make_option()</tt> (i.e., to the Option constructor), |
| 75 | and it will create the Option instance for you |
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| 82 | The other alternative is to pass a list of pre-constructed Option |
| 83 | instances to the OptionParser constructor, as in: |
| 84 | <div class="verbatim"><pre> |
| 85 | option_list = [ |
| 86 | make_option("-f", "--filename", |
| 87 | action="store", type="string", dest="filename"), |
| 88 | make_option("-q", "--quiet", |
| 89 | action="store_false", dest="verbose"), |
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| 91 | parser = OptionParser(option_list=option_list) |
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| 95 | (<tt class="function">make_option()</tt> is a factory function for creating Option instances; |
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