SF #642236, optparse LaTeX docs by Johannes Gijsbers

Doc/lib/required_1.py

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+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")