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|  | Maintainer: Craig Silverstein <google-gflags@googlegroups.com> | 
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|  | Package: python-gflags | 
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|  | Description: A Python implementation of the Google commandline flags module | 
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|  | GFlags defines a *distributed* command line system, replacing systems like | 
|  | getopt(), optparse and manual argument processing. Rather than an application | 
|  | having to define all flags in or near main(), each Python module defines flags | 
|  | that are useful to it.  When one Python module imports another, it gains | 
|  | access to the other's flags. | 
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|  | It includes the ability to define flag types (boolean, float, interger, list), | 
|  | autogeneration of help (in both human and machine readable format) and reading | 
|  | arguments from a file. It also includes the ability to automatically generate | 
|  | man pages from the help flags. | 
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