From 03f1e3930f5f88e77f7513e8e2f3d0adb2d63b46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bryan newbold <bnewbold@leaflabs.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:06:17 -0400
Subject: updates to python template

---
 code/templates/script.py | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/code/templates/script.py b/code/templates/script.py
index d1ba416..05a9e03 100755
--- a/code/templates/script.py
+++ b/code/templates/script.py
@@ -1,10 +1,18 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+..
+    Copyright: None
+    License: Public Domain
+    Author: You
+    Date: January 1970
 
+This is a template script. Do as you will!
+"""
+
+from __future__ import print_function
 import sys
 import argparse
-import logging
-
-log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+import logging as log
 
 
 def run():
@@ -12,28 +20,25 @@ def run():
     log.debug('This is a DEBUG level message.')
     log.warn('This is a WARN level message.')
 
-def main():
 
-    global log
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-    parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", 
-        default=False,
-        help="Show more debugging statements", 
-        action="store_true")
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="A template script",
+        usage="%(prog)s <commands> [arguments]")
+    parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose",
+        action="count",
+        help="Show more debugging statements")
     parser.add_argument("commands", nargs='*')
 
-    options = parser.parse_args()
-    args = options.commands
+    args = parser.parse_args()
 
-    if len(args) != 0:
-        parser.error("Incorrect number of arguments")
+    if len(args.commands) != 0:
+        parser.error("Incorrect number of commands")
 
-    log = logging.getLogger()
-    log.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
-    if options.verbose:
-        log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+    if args.verbose > 0:
+        log.basicConfig(format="%(levelname)s: %(message)s", level=log.DEBUG)
     else:
-        log.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+        log.basicConfig(format="%(levelname)s: %(message)s")
 
     run()
 
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