On 3/18/2013 7:02 PM, Miki Tebeka wrote:
OK, so what's next in process? Got some +1 and some -1, how do we proceed? (or not).
Seems not.
On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 8:03:16 AM UTC-8, Miki Tebeka wrote:
Greetings,
The usual way of resolving configuration is command line -> environment -> default. Currently argparse supports only command line -> default, I'd like to suggest an optional "env" keyword to add_argument that will also resolve from environment. (And also optional env dictionary to the ArgumentParser __init__ method [or to parse_args], which will default to os.environ).
Example: [spam.py]
from os import environ as env
parser = ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--spam', env='SPAM', default=7)
parser.add_argument('--spam', default = env.get('SPAM', 7)) This is about the same number of chars to type and I believe it is available now in all versions. I like it better because it puts the e.v. name and default right together. -- Terry Jan Reedy