i need a module for more involved command line parsing

[Skaperen]

i've done so much programming in assembly and C, where nothing to very little was available as tools (i did write a lot of my own) that doing things myself, without such tools, is just "second nature" to me. without argument parsing tools, i just wrote loops in a few hundred projects. with C there was getopt() and i started in C using it. but it could not do what i had already decided doing based on my experience with commands. even today, i write commands that "figure out" arguments and configuration "in context" rather than depend on lots of specific options, where i can. for example, in cloud programming, i have a big script that understands dozens of possible meanings of argument strings. if the string matches one of the region names, then i know a region was named. it does not need a "--region" option or need to be in a specific position. command line and config file parsing is something i have handled a lot and now can do very well. for Python, though, i have changed how i do config files: i read in the whole file, pass it to exec() with an empty dictionary, and use whatever it put in there.