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Introduction to `argparse`
Learn about the Python module, named `argparse`, the recommended command-line parsing module in the Python standard library.
In this video, you will begin to learn about the Python module, named argparse.
argparse provides more functionality, and although it requires a bit more work, it is the preferred method to parse command-line arguments.
This video tutorial is an introduction to argparse, the recommended command-line parsing module in the Python standard library.
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The file used in this video is python_argparse_ex1.py and is available for download from the Downloads section below. Once you have downloaded the file, open the file in VS Code, and follow along with the video.
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In the next step, we will learn how to add the first position argument to the parser object.
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