What's the best way to parse command line arguments?
Although argparse is great and is the right answer for fully documented command line switches and advanced features, you can use function argument defaults to handles straightforward …
How to handle variable number of arguments (nargs='*')
The relevant Python bug is Issue 15112. argparse: nargs='*' positional argument doesn't accept any items if preceded by an option and another positional When argparse parses ['1', '2', '- …
python - How can I pass a list as a command-line argument with …
python test.py -l "265340,268738,270774,270817" [other arguments] or, python test.py -l 265340,268738,270774,270817 [other arguments] will work fine. The delimiter can be a …
python - argparse mutual exclusive group - Stack Overflow
possible duplicate of How to make python argparse mutually exclusive group arguments without prefix?
python - Arguments that are dependent on other arguments with …
Arguments that are dependent on other arguments with Argparse Asked 10 years, 10 months ago Modified 5 years, 10 months ago Viewed 52k times
python - Check if argparse optional argument is set or not - Stack …
May 27, 2015 · I think using the option default=argparse.SUPPRESS makes most sense. Then, instead of checking if the argument is not None, one checks if the argument is in the resulting …
python argparse: unrecognized arguments - Stack Overflow
When I run parsePlotSens.py -s bw hehe, it says that hehe is an unrecognized argument. However, if I run parsePlotSens.py hehe -s bw, it's OK. Ideally, I would like it work for both …
python - Parsing boolean values with argparse - Stack Overflow
@AnatolyAlekseev, argparse developers are fully aware that some users try to handle strings like "True" or "False" as booleans, but have rejected proposals to redefine the basic Python bool …
Conditional command line arguments in Python using argparse
Feb 29, 2012 · Conditional command line arguments in Python using argparse Asked 13 years, 7 months ago Modified 3 years, 1 month ago Viewed 40k times
Make argparse treat dashes and underscore identically
Nov 28, 2018 · An alternative is to subclass argparse.ArgumentParser to make the matching invariant to replacing dashes by underscore. This requires a little bit of fiddling, as both …