Mutually exclusive options with argparse.
hongy...@gmail.com
hongyi.zhao at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 22:15:57 EDT 2021
On Wednesday, September 1, 2021 at 11:20:21 PM UTC+8, Lee Congdon wrote:
> Does a mutually exclusive group, as described in "Mutual exclusion" at
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html meet your needs?
Thanks for letting me know about this feature. I'll give it a try.
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 9:48 AM hongy... at gmail.com <hongy... at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > See the following code snippets [1] for implementation of the exclusive
> > options with argparse:
> >
> > def query_builder(args):
> > if args.r and args.s:
> > sys.exit(Term.FAIL + 'Only one of -re and -sql should be set' +
> > Term.ENDC)
> > sum_status = sum(1 for x in [args.failure, args.code != -1] if x)
> > if sum_status > 1:
> > sys.exit(Term.FAIL + ('Only one of --failure and --code has to be
> > set') + Term.ENDC)
> >
> > [1]
> > https://github.com/hongyi-zhao/recent2/blob/5486afbd56a6b06bb149a3ea969fb33d9d8b288f/recent2.py#L391
> >
> > It seems that the above method is awkward, but I'm out of idea to work out
> > more graceful solutions. Any comment/suggestion/enhancement will be highly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> > HY
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