Hello All,
I have just started out with python and was feeling pretty comfortable and
confident to the point of solving problems from websites. But now, there is a
program from Google's Python Exercises whose main() part is already given to
you.
def main():
# This command-line parsing code is provided.
# Make a list of command line arguments, omitting the [0] element
# which is the script itself.
args = sys.argv[1:]
if not args:
print 'usage: [--summaryfile] file [file ...]'
sys.exit(1)
# Notice the summary flag and remove it from args if it is present.
summary = False
if args[0] == '--summaryfile':
summary = True
del args[0]
The problem is one where you have to define a function to read a html file
containing the 1000 most popular baby names of a particular year(separate files
for different years) and print each name in alphabetical order with their
corresponding rank for that year.
My problem is that I cannot understand anything in this main() module. Nothing
at all. So can somebody please explain what this means and what is its
significance?
Thank You
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