Script Template

Sorry for the long delay, times are interesting around here.

Since many of my scripts share the same structure, I have a little template that I use for new scripts. I have a makepy command that copies this template to a new script.

#!/usr/bin/env python
''' '''

# Miki Tebeka 

def main(argv=None):
    if argv is None:
        import sys
        argv = sys.argv

    from optparse import OptionParser

    parser = OptionParser("usage: %prog ")

    opts, args = parser.parse_args(argv[1:])
    if len(args) != 1:
        parser.error("wrong number of arguments") # Will exit

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

As you can see, there is a place holder for the script documentation string. There is also a main function (inspired by Guido) and also a template for calling optparse command line parser module (most of my scripts take one argument, so this is the default).