moved the code into a main method because it's more sane.

github-backup.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 
 # Author: Anthony Gargiulo (anthony@agargiulo.com)
 # Created Fri Jun 15 2012
@@ -7,20 +7,25 @@ from pygithub3 import Github
 from argparse import ArgumentParser
 import os
 
-# A sane way to handle command line args.
-parser = ArgumentParser(description="makes a local backup copy of all of a github user's repositories")
-parser.add_argument("username", help="A Github username")
-parser.add_argument("backupdir", help="The folder where you want your backups to go", default="./backups")
-parser.add_argument("-v","--verbose", help="Produces more output", action="store_true")
+def main():
+   # A sane way to handle command line args.
+   parser = ArgumentParser(description="makes a local backup copy of all of a github user's repositories")
+   parser.add_argument("username", help="A Github username")
+   parser.add_argument("backupdir", help="The folder where you want your backups to go", default="./backups")
+   parser.add_argument("-v","--verbose", help="Produces more output", action="store_true")
 
-# Now actually store the args
-args = parser.parse_args()
+   # Now actually store the args
+   args = parser.parse_args()
 
-# Make the connection to Github here.
-gh = Github()
+   # Make the connection to Github here.
+   gh = Github()
 
-# Get all of the given user's repos
-user_repos = gh.repos.list(args.username).all()
-print user_repos[0].__dict__
-for repo in user_repos:
-   os.system('git clone {} {}/{}'.format(repo.git_url, args.backupdir, repo.name))
+   # Get all of the given user's repos
+   user_repos = gh.repos.list(args.username).all()
+   #print user_repos[0].__dict__
+   for repo in user_repos:
+      os.system('git clone {} {}/{}'.format(repo.git_url, args.backupdir, repo.name))
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+   main()
+   print("foobar")