I have a new script that I need to write in perl, to leverage our perl codebase (no, I can't convert it, not yet anyway). Our coding standards dictate Getopt::Long::GetOptions()
but I realize my option handling would be greatly improved and simplified if I could just drop python's optparse.OptionParser into it. The things I like in python: validation of inputs, both formats and required/optional, and auto help string generation based on argument config.
Any tips? I know I could roll my own, but I'd rather use someone else's work if it's already been done.