Similar to the brief usage string, optparse can also print a version string
for your program. You have to supply the string as the version
argument to OptionParser:
parser = OptionParser(usage="%prog [-f] [-q]", version="%prog 1.0")
"%prog"
is expanded just like it is in usage
. Apart
from that, version
can contain anything you like. When you supply
it, optparse automatically adds a "-version"
option to your parser.
If it encounters this option on the command line, it expands your
version
string (by replacing "%prog"
), prints it to stdout, and
exits.
For example, if your script is called /usr/bin/foo
:
$ /usr/bin/foo --version foo 1.0
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