Since [optparse](https://docs.python.org/2/library/optparse.html) (new since 2.3) is deprecated since 2.7 consider rewriting the code for [argparse](https://docs.python.org/2/library/argparse.html) (new in 2.7).
Since optparse (new since 2.3) is deprecated since 2.7 consider rewriting the code for argparse (new in 2.7).