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alexarsh
alexarsh

Reputation: 5391

argparse optional arguments

I have a following code in python:

group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
group.add_argument('-a', '--add', dest='name_to_add', help='Add a new group or a role to existing group')
group.add_argument('-u', '--upgrade', dest='name_to_upgrade', help='Upgrade a group with the new version')
group.add_argument('-r', '--remove', dest='name_to_remove', help='Remove a group')
group.add_argument('-l', '--list', dest="list_server_or_group_name", help='Get group or server state/configuration')

My problem is with "-l" option. I want to be able to list a specific group and to list all the groups. Currently I do it with:

"python my_script.py -l group_name" - for listing a specific group and "python my_script.py -l all" - for listing all the groups.

But I would like to list all the groups just with: "python my_script.py -l". How should I change my code in order to be able to run it this way? and how can I check it later in code?

Thanks, Arshavski Alexander.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1011

Answers (1)

ecatmur
ecatmur

Reputation: 157504

This isn't possible with optparse.

However, if you switch from optparse to argparse (since 2.7 or 3.2) you can pass nargs='?':

'?'. One argument will be consumed from the command line if possible, and produced as a single item. If no command-line argument is present, the value from default will be produced.

group.add_argument('-l', '--list', dest="list_server_or_group_name",
                   help='Get group or server state/configuration',
                   nargs='?', default=None, const='all')

Upvotes: 4

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