ref: 50791b875552b0dc5748aa67c95776736f6ff4b7
dir: /sys/src/cmd/python/Doc/lib/required_1.py/
import optparse
class OptionParser (optparse.OptionParser):
def check_required (self, opt):
option = self.get_option(opt)
# Assumes the option's 'default' is set to None!
if getattr(self.values, option.dest) is None:
self.error("%s option not supplied" % option)
parser = OptionParser()
parser.add_option("-v", action="count", dest="verbose")
parser.add_option("-f", "--file", default=None)
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
print "verbose:", options.verbose
print "file:", options.file
parser.check_required("-f")