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Argparse: Required arguments listed under “optional arguments”?

I use the following simple code to parse some arguments; note that one of them is required. Unfortunately, when the user runs the ...

May 15, 2022
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Argparse: Way to include default values in ‘–help’?

Suppose I have the following argparse snippet: diags.cmdln_parser.add_argument( '--scan-time', action = 'store', nargs="?", type = int, default = 5, help = "Wait SCAN-TIME ...

May 9, 2022
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How to insert newlines on argparse help text?

I’m using argparse in Python 2.7 for parsing input options. One of my options is a multiple choice. I want to make a ...

May 6, 2022
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Python argparse command line flags without arguments

How do I add an optional flag to my command line args? eg. so I can write python myprog.py or python myprog.py -w ...

May 5, 2022
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Simple argparse example wanted: 1 argument, 3 results

The documentation for the argparse python module, while excellent I’m sure, is too much for my tiny beginner brain to grasp right now. ...

April 29, 2022
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How can I pass a list as a command-line argument with argparse?

I am trying to pass a list as an argument to a command line program. Is there an argparse option to pass a ...

April 28, 2022
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Argparse optional positional arguments?

I have a script which is meant to be used like this: usage: installer.py dir [-h]...

April 21, 2022
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Parsing boolean values with argparse

I would like to use argparse to parse boolean command-line arguments written as “–foo True” or “–foo False”. For example: my_program --my_boolean_flag False ...

April 18, 2022
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