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satoru
satoru

Reputation: 33225

multiple level arguments processing with `optparse`

What I mean by multiple level arguments is something like svn help, after parsing the svn help part, the following word is considered argument to help the subcommand.

Is it possible to set this up with optparse?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1769

Answers (2)

Nicolas Barbey
Nicolas Barbey

Reputation: 6797

argparse support sub-commands : http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html#sub-commands optparse is deprecated in favor of argparse since python 2.7

Upvotes: 2

mgalardini
mgalardini

Reputation: 1467

According to the python docs, optparse is now considered as deprecated, and won't be developed further; therefore i would strongly suggest you to use the module argparse, whith which you can create "multiple level" arguments.

import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()

# Init sub-command
parser_init = subparsers.add_parser('init', help='initialize the things')
parser_init.add_argument(...)

# Help sub-command
parser_help = subparsers.add_parser('help', help='help me!')
parser_help.add_argument(...)

Upvotes: 6

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