Help me debug this script with argparse and if statements

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 06:10:42 EST 2013


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Santosh Kumar <sntshkmr60 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> To do what you're looking for there, I wouldn't bother with argparse
>> at all - I'd just look at sys.argv[1] for the word you're looking for.
>> Yes, it'd be a bit strict and simplistic, but by the look of things,
>> you don't need sophistication.
>
> You are right, but I think sys.argv is very basic. Before argparse
> even I was using it, but it was very hard to manage if user has less
> argument, more argument or more argument. I think argparse is the
> better thing than sys.argv, and I believe there might be any way to
> tackle my (argparse) problem. That is what I am looking here for.

Sure. In the actual example posted, I wouldn't bother, but it's like
migrating a script from bash to a more maintainable language - it's
something to think about as soon as the script gets over about a page
of code.

ChrisA



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