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+# Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
+
+import argparse
+
+from telemetry.internal.util import command_line
+
+
+class ArgParseCommand(command_line.Command):
+  usage = ''
+
+  @classmethod
+  def CreateParser(cls):
+    return argparse.ArgumentParser('%%prog %s %s' % (cls.Name(), cls.usage),
+                                   description=cls.Description())
+
+  @classmethod
+  def AddCommandLineArgs(cls, parser, environment):
+    # pylint: disable=arguments-differ
+    pass
+
+  @classmethod
+  def ProcessCommandLineArgs(cls, parser, options, extra_args, environment):
+    # pylint: disable=arguments-differ
+    pass
+
+  def Run(self, options, extra_args=None):
+    # pylint: disable=arguments-differ
+    raise NotImplementedError()
+
+  @classmethod
+  def main(cls, args=None):
+    """Main method to run this command as a standalone script."""
+    parser = cls.CreateParser()
+    cls.AddCommandLineArgs(parser, None)
+    options, extra_args = parser.parse_known_args(args=args)
+    cls.ProcessCommandLineArgs(parser, options, extra_args, None)
+    return min(cls().Run(options, extra_args), 255)