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Print command line arguments with argparse?

I am using argparse to parse command line arguments. To aid debugging, I would like to print a line with …

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Handle spaces in argparse input

Using python and argparse, the user could input a file name with -d as the flag. parser.add_argument("-d", "…

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Python argparse dict arg

I want to receive a dict(str -> str) argument from the command line. Does argparse.ArgumentParser provide it? …

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Python argparse: Lots of choices results in ugly help output

I have this code which I am generally pleased with: import argparse servers = [ "ApaServer", "BananServer", "GulServer", "SolServer", "RymdServer", "SkeppServer", "HavsServer", "…

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how to make argument optional in python argparse

I would like to make these invocations of myprog work, and no others. $ python3 myprog.py -i infile -o outfile $ …

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Customize argparse help message

I have written the following sample code to demonstrate my issue. import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument('-v', …

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Multiple files for one argument in argparse Python 2.7

Trying to make an argument in argparse where one can input several file names that can be read. In this …

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Support for Enum arguments in argparse

Is there a better way of supporting Enums as types of argparse arguments than this pattern? class SomeEnum(Enum): ONE = 1 …

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Passing arguments into os.system

I need to execute the following command through python. rtl2gds is a tool which reads in 2 parameters: Path to …

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What is a namespace object?

import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='sort given numbers') parser.add_argument('-s', nargs = '+', type = int) args = parser.…

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