On Jan 11, 8:25 am, Alice Bevan–McGregor <al... at gothcandy.com> wrote: explicit callbacks or typecasting functions, etc. >> I got tired of using PasteScript and OptParse. Mostly OptParse, actually. :/ It's a pity that the argument parsing modules in the standard library are so verbose that everybody is reinventing the same thing :-( It looks like you have reinvented plac: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plac