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A Python module for implementing command-line interfaces

Accepting a dictionary as an argument with argparse and python

I'm trying to accept an argument of type=dict with argparse but no matter the input it gives an error …

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How do I create a Python namespace (argparse.parse_args value)?

To interactively test my python script, I would like to create a Namespace object, similar to what would be returned …

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Get selected subcommand with argparse

When I use subcommands with python argparse, I can get the selected arguments. parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument('-g', …

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argparse: identify which subparser was used

I think this must be easy but I do not get it. Assume I have the following arparse parser: import …

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Using 'argparse.ArgumentError' in Python

I'd like to use the ArgumentError exception in the argparse module in Python, but I can't figure out how to …

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Python error: the following arguments are required

I have the Python script that works well when executing it via command line. What I'm trying to do is …

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Multiple positional arguments with Python and argparse

I'm trying to use argparse to parse the command line arguments for a program I'm working on. Essentially, I need …

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How to iterate over arguments

I have such script: import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description='Text file conversion.' ) parser.add_argument("inputfile", help="file …

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Python argparse and controlling/overriding the exit status code

Apart from tinkering with the argparse source, is there any way to control the exit status code should there be …

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Python argparse - Add argument to multiple subparsers

My script defines one main parser and multiple subparsers. I want to apply the -p argument to some subparsers. So …

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