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<code>dict</code> --+
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<p>An option list parser class</p>
<p><code>optFlags</code> and <code>optParameters</code> are lists of 
available parameters which your program can handle. The difference 
between the two is the 'flags' have an on(1) or off(0) state (off by 
default) whereas 'parameters' have an assigned value, with an optional 
default. (Compare '--verbose' and '--verbosity=2')</p>
optFlags is assigned a list of lists. Each list represents a flag 
parameter, as so:
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<p>| optFlags = [['verbose', 'v', 'Makes it tell you what it doing.'], | 
['quiet', 'q', 'Be vewy vewy quiet.']]</p>
<p>As you can see, the first item is the long option name (prefixed with 
'--' on the command line), followed by the short option name (prefixed 
with '-'), and the description. The description is used for the built-in 
handling of the --help switch, which prints a usage summary.</p>
<code>optParameters</code> is much the same, except the list also 
contains a default value:
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<p>| optParameters = [['outfile', 'O', 'outfile.log', 
'Description...']]</p>
subCommands is a list of 4-tuples of (command name, command shortcut, 
parser class, documentation). If the first non-option argument found is 
one of the given command names, an instance of the given parser class is 
instantiated and given the remainder of the arguments to parse and 
self.opts[command] is set to the command name. For example:
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<p>| subCommands = [ | ['inquisition', 'inquest', InquisitionOptions, 
'Perform an inquisition'], | ['holyquest', 'quest', HolyQuestOptions, 
'Embark upon a holy quest'] | ]</p>
<p>In this case, <code>&quot;&lt;program&gt; holyquest --horseback 
--for-grail&quot;</code> will cause <code>HolyQuestOptions</code> to be 
instantiated and asked to parse <code>['--horseback', 
'--for-grail']</code>. Currently, only the first sub-command is parsed, 
and all options following it are passed to its parser. If a subcommand is 
found, the subCommand attribute is set to its name and the subOptions 
attribute is set to the Option instance that parses the remaining 
options. If a subcommand is not given to parseOptions, the subCommand 
attribute will be None. You can also mark one of the subCommands to be 
the default.</p>
<p>| defaultSubCommand = 'holyquest'</p>
<p>In this case, the subCommand attribute will never be None, and the 
subOptions attribute will always be set.</p>
<p>If you want to handle your own options, define a method named 
<code>opt_paramname</code> that takes <code>(self, option)</code> as 
arguments. <code>option</code> will be whatever immediately follows the 
parameter on the command line. Options fully supports the mapping 
interface, so you can do things like <code>'self[&quot;option&quot;] = 
val'</code> in these methods.</p>
Advanced functionality is covered in the howto documentation, 
available at <a 
href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/howto/options">http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/howto/options</a>, 
or doc/howto/options.html in your Twisted directory.
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<td><b><a href="twisted.python.usage.Options.html#defaultSubCommand"><code>defaultSubCommand</code></a></b> = <span title="None">None&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></td></tr>
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  Gather up boolean (flag) options.
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  Gather up options with their own handler methods.
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  Gather options which take a value.
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  <p>I am called with any leftover arguments which were not options.</p>
  <p>Override me to do something with the remaining arguments on the 
  command line, those which were not flags or options. e.g. interpret 
  them as a list of files to operate on.</p>
  Note that if there more arguments on the command line than this 
  method accepts, parseArgs will blow up with a getopt.error. This means 
  if you don't override me, parseArgs will blow up if I am passed any 
  arguments at all!
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">parseOptions</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>,
          <span class=sig-arg>options</span>=<span class=sig-default>None</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  The guts of the command-line parser.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
  </dd></dl>
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<a name="postOptions"></a>
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  <h3><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">postOptions</span>(<span class=sig-arg>self</span>)</span>
  </h3>
  <p>I am called after the options are parsed.</p>
  Override this method in your subclass to do something after the 
  options have been parsed and assigned, like validate that all options 
  are sane.
  <dl><dt></dt><dd>
  </dd></dl>
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      <dd>
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None&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</pre>
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<h3>parent</h3>
<dl>
  <dt></dt>
  <dd>
    <dl>
      <dt><b>Type:</b></dt>
      <dd>
          <code>NoneType</code>

      </dd>
<span title="None">      <dt><b>Value:</b></dt>
      <dd><table><tr><td>
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None&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</pre>
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<a name="subCommand"></a>
<h3>subCommand</h3>
<dl>
  <dt></dt>
  <dd>
    <dl>
      <dt><b>Type:</b></dt>
      <dd>
          <code>NoneType</code>

      </dd>
<span title="None">      <dt><b>Value:</b></dt>
      <dd><table><tr><td>
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None&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</pre>
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