Python Coding challenge - Day 79 | What is the output of the following Python code?

 

Code : 

import sys, getopt

sys.argv =['C:\\a.py', '-h', 'word1', 'word2']

options, arguments = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:],'s:t:h')

print(options)

Solution and Explanation:

This code outputs the following:

[('-h', '')]

The getopt.getopt() function takes two arguments:

The first argument is the sequence of arguments to be parsed. This is typically sys.argv[1:], which is a list of all the command-line arguments except for the program name.

The second argument is the option string. This is a string of characters, where each character represents an option. If an option requires an argument, the character is followed by a colon. For example, the option string "s:t:h" defines three options:

-s: This option requires an argument, which is stored in the optarg variable.

-t: This option requires an argument, which is stored in the optarg variable.

-h: This option does not require an argument.

The getopt.getopt() function returns a list of two-element tuples. Each tuple consists of an option character and its argument, if any. For example, the tuple ('-h', '') indicates that the -h option was specified without an argument.

In this case, the command-line arguments are ['C:\\a.py', '-h', 'word1', 'word2']. The option string is 's:t:h'. Therefore, the getopt.getopt() function returns the list [('-h', '')], which indicates that the -h option was specified without an argument.