On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:55 AM, Gelonida N <gelon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > So far I used optparse.OptionParser for parsing command line arguments > for my python scripts. So far I was happy, with a one level approach, > where I get only one help text > > Now I'd like to create a slightly different python script and wondered > which approach / module might be best for implementing the parsing and > generation of help texts. <snip> > then if I typed ./sh.py <command> -h > I'd like to get the helptext for the specified command.
http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html It is capable of handling sub-commands and the display of subcommand-specific help text. Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list