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+"""
+Module related to the argument parsing
+
+There is a fallback to the deprecated optparse if argparse is not found
+"""
+from os import path
+from argparse import ArgumentParser, SUPPRESS
+
+def parse_args(CONFIG_PATH=''):
+    """
+    Parse the arguments from the command line
+    """
+    parser = ArgumentParser('poezio')
+    parser.add_argument("-c", "--check-config", dest="check_config",
+                        action='store_true',
+                        help='Check the config file')
+    parser.add_argument("-d", "--debug", dest="debug",
+                        help="The file where debug will be written",
+                        metavar="DEBUG_FILE")
+    parser.add_argument("-f", "--file", dest="filename",
+                        default=path.join(CONFIG_PATH, 'poezio.cfg'),
+                        help="The config file you want to use",
+                        metavar="CONFIG_FILE")
+    parser.add_argument("-v", "--version", dest="version",
+                        help=SUPPRESS, metavar="VERSION",
+                        default="1.0-dev")
+    options = parser.parse_args()
+    return options