How to read/process command line arguments?

Question

I am originally a C programmer. I have seen numerous tricks and \"hacks\" to read many different arguments.

What are some of the ways Python programmers can do this

Answer 1

My solution is entrypoint2. Example:

from entrypoint2 import entrypoint
@entrypoint
def add(file, quiet=True): 
    ''' This function writes report.

    :param file: write report to FILE
    :param quiet: don't print status messages to stdout
    '''
    print file,quiet

help text:

usage: report.py [-h] [-q] [--debug] file

This function writes report.

positional arguments:
  file         write report to FILE

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit
  -q, --quiet  don't print status messages to stdout
  --debug      set logging level to DEBUG