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6.20.1 Philosophy

The purpose of `optparse` is to make it very easy to provide the most standard, obvious, straightforward, and user-friendly user interface for Unix command-line programs. The `optparse` philosophy is heavily influenced by the Unix and GNU toolkits, and this section is meant to explain that philosophy.

Subsections

- 6.20.1.1 Terminology
- 6.20.1.2 What are options for?
- 6.20.1.3 What are positional arguments for?