old_contents: #!/usr/bin/python
  """ This is a boilerplate for interacting with NIPAP using Pynipap
  
      It provides things such as basic command line parsing of connection options
      for the backend or reading the users .nipaprc file for getting connectivity
      settings.
  """
  
  import ConfigParser
  import os
  # use local pynipap, useful if we are developing
  import sys
  sys.path.append('../pynipap')
  from pynipap import Prefix, Pool, VRF
  import pynipap
  
  #
  # Fill in your code here
  #
  
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      # read configuration
      cfg = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
      cfg.read(os.path.expanduser('~/.nipaprc'))
  
      import optparse
      parser = optparse.OptionParser()
      parser.add_option('--username', default='', help="Username")
      parser.add_option('--password', default='', help="Password")
      parser.add_option('--host', help="NIPAP backend host")
      parser.add_option('--port', default=1337, help="NIPAP backend port")
      (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
  
      auth_uri = "%s:%s@" % (options.username or cfg.get('global', 'username'),
              options.password or cfg.get('global', 'password'))
  
      xmlrpc_uri = "http://%(auth_uri)s%(host)s:%(port)s" % {
              'auth_uri'  : auth_uri,
              'host'      : options.host or cfg.get('global', 'hostname'),
              'port'      : options.port or cfg.get('global', 'port')
              }
      pynipap.AuthOptions({ 'authoritative_source': 'nipap' })
      pynipap.xmlrpc_uri = xmlrpc_uri
  
  
new_contents: #!/usr/bin/python
  """ This is a boilerplate for interacting with NIPAP using Pynipap
  
      It provides things such as basic command line parsing of connection options
      for the backend or reading the users .nipaprc file for getting connectivity
      settings.
  """
  
  import ConfigParser
  import os
  # use local pynipap, useful if we are developing
  import sys
  sys.path.append('../pynipap')
  from pynipap import Prefix, Pool, VRF
  import pynipap
  
  #
  # Fill in your code here
  #
  
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      # read configuration
      cfg = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
      cfg.read(os.path.expanduser('~/.nipaprc'))
  
      import optparse
      parser = optparse.OptionParser()
      parser.add_option('--username', help="NIPAP backend username")
      parser.add_option('--password', help="NIPAP backend password")
      parser.add_option('--host', help="NIPAP backend host")
      parser.add_option('--port', help="NIPAP backend port")
      (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
  
      auth_uri = "%s:%s@" % (options.username or cfg.get('global', 'username'),
              options.password or cfg.get('global', 'password'))
  
      xmlrpc_uri = "http://%(auth_uri)s%(host)s:%(port)s" % {
              'auth_uri'  : auth_uri,
              'host'      : options.host or cfg.get('global', 'hostname'),
              'port'      : options.port or cfg.get('global', 'port')
              }
      pynipap.AuthOptions({ 'authoritative_source': 'nipap' })
      pynipap.xmlrpc_uri = xmlrpc_uri
  
  
subject: Remove default arguments in boilerplate