#!/usr/bin/python import os, argpars, hashlib, email, glob, sqlite3 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Parses emails into an SQLite database, and optionally renders static HTML files.') parser.add_argument('-p', '--pattern', dest='pattern', action='store', default='*', help='glob pattern (including path) that has to be matched for a file to be parsed') parser.add_argument('-r', '--render', dest='render', action='store_true', help='render static HTML files using the template files in templates/') args = parser.parse_args() options = vars(args) filelist = glob.glob(options['pattern']) print filelist