[Tutor] get aws path from argParser

[ashish makani]

+1 to what Alan said.

Its not clear what you are asking & if you are asking something at all.

( to me, it seems like you are answering someone's query & accidentally
posted here on the python tutor mailing list)

sent from mobile device ;
excuse typos & auto-correct errors
On Jan 9, 2016 00:17, "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 08/01/16 14:04, sebastian cheung via Tutor wrote:
> > * take an s3 destination path as an argument optionally containing the
> string ++DATE++ as a placeholder (e.g. s3://my-bucket/objects/++DATE++/,
> s3://my-bucket/objects/++DATE++/file-++DATE++.txt and
> s3://my-bucket/objects/ should all be valid)
> > I already have something for something more simple, but for s3 maybe use
> awscli etc? Thanks Seb
>
> I have no idea what you are asking about (other than I
> assume its something related to AWS?). This is the python
> tutor list for answering questions about the Python language
> and its standard library. Did you mean to post here?
>
> If so you need to give us a bit more information about
> what you are doing and what exactly you want help with.
>
> > def dateType(string):
> >     """
> >     Convert a date string to a date object
> >     """
> >     try:
> >         date = datetime.datetime.strptime(string, '%Y-%m-%d').date()
> >     except ValueError:
> >         msg = "%r is not a valid date" % string
> >         raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(msg)
> >     return date
> >
> >
> > def is_valid_file(parser, arg):
> >     if not os.path.exists(arg):
> >         parser.error("The file %s does not exist!" % arg)
> >     else:
> >         return open(arg, 'r')parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
> >         description="Take CLI options called start-date and end-date,
> which must be formatted YYYY-MM-DD. "
> >                     "These should default to today if not supplied",
> >         epilog="See http://bitbucket.org/niceseb/ for details about the
> Project Time Tracker.")
> > parser.add_argument('-e', '--end-date', metavar='DATE', type=dateType,
> default=datetime.date.today(),
> >                     help='the date tracking data should start at,
> inclusive in the format YYYY-MM-DD (defaults to today)')
> > parser.add_argument('-s', '--start-date', metavar='DATE', type=dateType,
> default=datetime.date.today(),
> >                     help='the date tracking data should end at,
>  inclusive in the format YYYY-MM-DD (defaults to today)')
> > parser.add_argument('-v', action='version', version='%(prog)s 1.0')
> > parser.add_argument('-i', dest="filename", required=False, help="input
> file name", metavar="FILE",
> >                     type=lambda x: is_valid_file(parser, x))
>
>
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