src/CLI.py

   1 from optparse import IndentedHelpFormatter
   2 from optparse import OptionParser
   3
   4 import Configuration.Defaults
   5
   6
   7 def default_option_parser(usage=None):
   8     # -h (help) Conflicts with -h HOSTNAME
   9     parser = OptionParser(usage=usage, add_help_option = False)
  10
  11     parser.add_option('-h',
  12                       '--host',
  13                       help='The hostname/address where the database is located.',
  14                       default=Configuration.Defaults.DATABASE_HOST)
  15
  16     parser.add_option('-d',
  17                       '--database',
  18                       help='The database in which the population data are stored.',
  19                       default=Configuration.Defaults.DATABASE_NAME)
  20
  21     parser.add_option('-U',
  22                       '--username',
  23                       help='The username who has access to the database.',
  24                       default=Configuration.Defaults.DATABASE_USERNAME)
  25
  26     return parser
  27
  28
  29
  30 class VerbatimHelpFormatter(IndentedHelpFormatter):
  31     """
  32     The two HelpFormatters supplied with OptParse like to mangle their
  33     descriptions during print_help(). This subclassed formatter
  34     overrides the format_description() method with an implementation
  35     that simply returns the description unmodified.
  36     """
  37     def format_description(self, description):
  38         return description