How to access command line options similar to unix commands for your python script?

import getopt
args = "--type daily --from_date 2015-12-12 --to_date 2015-12-19".split()
optlist,args = getopt.getopt(args, "", ["type=", "from_date=", "to-date"])

Fore more: https://docs.python.org/2/library/getopt.html