PYTHON

add option in python script

from optparse import OptionParser
...
parser = OptionParser()
parser.add_option("-f", "--file", dest="filename",
                  help="write report to FILE", metavar="FILE")
parser.add_option("-q", "--quiet",
                  action="store_false", dest="verbose", default=True,
                  help="don't print status messages to stdout")

(options, args) = parser.parse_args()

add option in python script

import argparse
import sys

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Does some awesome things.")
parser.add_argument('message', type=str, help="pass a message into the script")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    args = parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
    print args.message