Template for shell script boilerplate

script.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import argparse


def parse_args(args=None):
	parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
	parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="count", default=0,
		help="Increase verbosity", dest="verbosity")
	return parser.parse_args()


def main(args=None):
	arguments = parse_args(args)
	print "Verbosity: %i" % arguments.verbosity


if __name__ == "__main__":
	sys.exit(main())