Validating positional arguments in optparse
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 12:03:10 EDT 2009
On 2009-10-23 05:54 AM, Filip GruszczyĆski wrote:
>> That being said, I still stick with optparse. I prefer the dogmatic
>> interface that makes all my exe use the exact same (POSIX) convention. I
>> really don't care about writing /file instead of --file
>
> I would like to keep POSIX convention too, but just wanted
> OptionParser to do the dirty work of checking that arguments are all
> right for me and wanted to know the reason, it doesn't.
>
> I guess I should write a subclass, which would do just that.
If you don't want to allow /file, just don't use it. argparse's default is to
only allow --options and not /options. You can configure it to do otherwise, but
you are in complete control. Your programs will all follow the same convention.
I highly, highly recommend argparse over optparse.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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