I use the following simple code to parse some arguments; note that one of them is required. Unfortunately, when the user runs the script without providing the argument, the...
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 seconds between status checks.") Currently, --help...
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 list in its help text, e.g....
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 I tried parser.add_argument('-w') But I just...
The documentation for the argparse python module, while excellent I’m sure, is too much for my tiny beginner brain to grasp right now. I don’t need to do math...
I am trying to pass a list as an argument to a command line program. Is there an argparse option to pass a list as option? parser.add_argument('-l', '--list', type=list,...
I have a script which is meant to be used like this: usage: installer.py dir [-h] [-v] dir is a positional argument which is defined like this: parser.add_argument('dir', default=os.getcwd())...
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 However, the following test code does...