a simple python 3 script to delete a pad in etherpad lite via http api

ep_delete.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import urllib.request,urllib.parse
import argparse
import json
import sys

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()

parser.add_argument("--apifile", help="Api file",default="APIKEY.txt")
parser.add_argument( "--hostname", help="Host name",default="localhost")
parser.add_argument("-p", "--port",help="Port",default="9001")
parser.add_argument("-k", "--apikey",help="Api key")
parser.add_argument("-f","--force",action="store_true",help="don't ask confirmation before deletion")
parser.add_argument("padid",help="Pad Id")

args = parser.parse_args()
if args.apikey and args.apifile!="APIKEY.txt":
    print ("specify only apifile or key",file=sys.stderr)
    sys.exit(1)
if not args.force:
    confirm = input("delete pad: \""+args.padid+"\" ? ")
    if not confirm=="y":
        sys.exit(1)
if not args.apikey:
    apikey = open(args.apifile).read()
else:
    apikey = args.apikey

result = json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen("http://"+args.hostname+":"+args.port+"/api/1/deletePad?apikey="+urllib.parse.quote(apikey,"utf-8")+"&padID="+urllib.parse.quote(args.padid,"utf-8")).read().decode("utf-8"))
if result["code"] != 0:
    print(result["message"],file=sys.stderr)
    sys.exit(result["code"])