standards_and_conventions

Argument and Options Handling

Help

• -h - should provide standard minimum help info as provided by options handler
• --long-help - should provide module doc

Input File-Handling

• Programs should be able to handle stdin, a file argument or multiple files as arguments.

Arg & Opt Handling Module

• Most code uses optparse, but gradually everything is moving over to argparse.

Importing

Testing

• Using pytest for unittesting
• Using tox to simplify unittesting across multiple environments and Python versions (2.6 & 2.7)