Questions tagged [argparse]
A Python module for implementing command-line interfaces
argparse
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Python argparse parse_known_args(namespace=); use of namespace?
Trying to understand pymol-open-source setup.py, I came accross this use of
argparse.parse_know_args() namespace keyword:
import argparse
...
class options:
osx_frameworks = True
jobs = int(...
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Running a script from another script with argparse parameters
I have been given a Python application and I need to make it into an Azure Function and within its main function we have this argparse configuration:
if __name__ == "__main__":
parser = ...
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How to make argparse work nicely with enums and default values?
I have an enum:
from enum import auto, Enum
class MyEnum(Enum):
ONE = auto()
TWO = auto()
THREE = auto()
and I want to use it as an argument with argparse. To be more specific, I want to ...
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Get parent parser from argparse's parser
I have certain python code which takes CLI arguments and handles them using argparse's parser. I have a parent parser as such:
verbose_quiet_parent_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=False)
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How can I add a keyword argument with a default value when setting up argparse in Python?
I have a function that sets what arguments can be passed to a command line when calling on a function, using argparse:
def parse_arguments(args):
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(usage=...
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parser add_mutually_exclusive_group - how can I set a default value?
We use Python and Django for our websites. We set a test command that adds to the default Django test command:
from django.core.management.commands import test
class Command(test.Command):
def ...
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How to incorporate argparse into a python function with two arguments
I am trying to figure out how to incorporate argparse into a python function I have created that accepts two arguments, so that it is executable in the command line.
For example in this function below:...
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How to Resolve ArgumentParser Conflict with -h/--help in Subcommands?
I'm developing a Python command-line tool using argparse with multiple modules, each having its own set of arguments. I'm using separate classes to define each module's arguments and integrate them ...
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How to get arguments from ArgParser to write to a textfile so it can be read with `fromfile_prefix_chars`
I want a script to save all arguments (whether provided or populate from defaults or read from a text file) to a text file in such a format that I can re-run the script using fromfile_prefix_chars ...
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Key-value “Sub-paramettre” with Python’s argparse
I want to make the --new-entry paramettre be able to process a key-value sequence with space as statement separator.
As example:
script.py --new-entry name="The Republic" author="Plato&...
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How to get " sign for string args in python argparse
I want to write a program in Python that gets args of unspecified number and type. I can do this with argparse as follows:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('args', help='Help', ...
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A Python argparse curiosity
Given the following code:
# parseargs.py
import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("s")
args = parser.parse_args()
When I run this, it all works as expected ...
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have top-level parser and subparsers act on the same variable
i have an ArgumentParser with sub-parsers. Some flags are common for all sub-parsers, and I would like to be able to specify them either before or after the sub-command, or even mix before and after (...
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Creating optional argparse arguments, and ones that takes either None or a str as input
I'm writing argparse arguments for a command line function where:
More than one of the functions are optional, and
One of the functions defaults to None if no file path string is provided
The code ...
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Strange shell tab completion behaviour
I'm using the argparse Python module in a script that looks like this:
import argparse
def get_info(line: str) -> tuple:
print(line.split("|"))
def main():
p = argparse....
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