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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def parse_options(self, prog_name, arguments):
 """Parse the available options."""

        # Don't want to load configuration to just print the version,
        # so we handle --version manually here.
        if '--version' in arguments:
            self.exit_status(self.version, fh=sys.stdout)
        parser = self.create_parser(prog_name)
        options, args = parser.parse_args(arguments)
        return options, args