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+#! /usr/bin/env python3
+
+import argparse
+import os
+
+import sys
+
+def get_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+            prog='Howler.py',
+            description='Howler (upper-cases input)')
+
+    parser.add_argument('text', type=str, help='Inpyt string or file')
+    parser.add_argument('-o', '--outfile',
+            metavar='str', 
+            dest='outfile',
+            help='Output filename (default: ',
+            default = '')
+
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def main():
+    
+    args = get_args()
+
+    text = args.text
+    of_path = args.outfile
+
+
+    if os.path.isfile(text):
+        #print('is file', text)
+        in_file = open(text)
+        out_text = in_file.read().upper()
+        in_file.close()
+    else:
+       out_text = text.upper()
+
+    if of_path != '':
+        out_file = open(of_path, 'wt')
+    else:
+        out_file = sys.stdout
+
+    print(out_text, file = out_file)
+
+    if out_file != sys.stdout:
+        out_file.close()
+
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
+    
+
+
+