#!/bin/env python

"""Python script template

Detailed description goes here.
"""

from optparse import OptionParser

def run_from_command_line(args):
    # --help prints a help summary
    # %prog is replaced with program name
    parser = OptionParser("%prog -- my program")
    parser.add_option("-s", "--string", dest="string", help="a string")
    parser.add_option("-l", "--list",
                      action="append", type="string", help = "a string")
    parser.add_option("-f", "--flag",
                      action="store_true", dest="flag",
                      default=False, help="a flag")
    
    (options, args) = parser.parse_args(args)
    print "string=%s" % options.string
    print "flag=%s" % options.flag
    print "list=%s" % options.list
    print args


if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    
    run_from_command_line(sys.argv[1:])