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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 | |
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68 | pass it an Option instance (as returned by <tt class="function">make_option()</tt>) | |
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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), | |
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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: | |
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85 | option_list = [ | |
86 | make_option("-f", "--filename", | |
87 | action="store", type="string", dest="filename"), | |
88 | make_option("-q", "--quiet", | |
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91 | parser = OptionParser(option_list=option_list) | |
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