14.3.3.6 Standard option types

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14.3.3.6 Standard option types

`optparse` has six built-in option types: `string`, `int`, `long`, `choice`, `float` and `complex`. If you need to add new option types, see section 14.3.5, Extending `optparse`.

Arguments to string options are not checked or converted in any way: the text on the command line is stored in the destination (or passed to the callback) as-is.

Integer arguments (type `int` or `long`) are parsed as follows:

- if the number starts with `0x`, it is parsed as a hexadecimal number

- if the number starts with `0`, it is parsed as an octal number

- if the number starts with `0b`, is is parsed as a binary number

- otherwise, the number is parsed as a decimal number

The conversion is done by calling either `int()` or `long()` with the appropriate base (2, 8, 10, or 16). If this fails, so will `optparse`, although with a more useful error message.

`float` and `complex` option arguments are converted directly with `float()` and `complex()`, with similar error-handling.

`choice` options are a subtype of `string` options. The `choices` option attribute (a sequence of strings) defines the set of allowed option arguments. `optparse.check_choice()` compares user-supplied option arguments against this master list and raises OptionValueError if an invalid string is given.