argparse Questions

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argparse replaces dashes in optional arguments by underscores to determine their destination: import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument('--use-unicorns', action='store...
Halpin asked 28/11, 2018 at 20:13

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I'm using argparse to get the logging level from the command line and then passing it as input for logging.basicConfig. However, the way I'm trying to implement this is not working. Any suggestion?...
Polygynous asked 24/7, 2019 at 23:14

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Is it possible to use a regex for parsing an argument? For example, I want to accept an argument if only it is a 32 length hex (i.e. matches /[a-f0-9A-F]{32}/) I tried p.add_argument('hex', type=st...
Batish asked 26/1, 2017 at 19:4

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I'm trying to make argparse ignore the fact that two normally required positional arguments shouldn't be evaluated when an optional argument (-l) is specified. Basically I'm trying to replicate th...
Twopenny asked 20/9, 2011 at 10:58

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My argparse has only 3 flags (store_true) on the top level, everything else is handled through subparsers. When I run myprog.py --help, the output shows a list of all subcommands like normal, {sub1...
Zucchetto asked 20/11, 2013 at 11:6

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I'm writing a program in which I would like to have arguments like this: --[no-]foo Do (or do not) foo. Default is do. Is there a way to get argparse to do this for me in versions of Python earlie...
Philemon asked 10/2, 2012 at 20:15

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I'm parsing CLI arguments in my program with the argparse library. I would like to parse an argument that can repeat, with the following behaviour: if the argument appears at least once, its valu...
Glomerate asked 9/1, 2020 at 11:3

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I got "args" from argparse: args = parser.parse_args() I want to pass it to two different functions with slight modifications each. That's why I want to deep copy the args, modify the copy and...
Pegmatite asked 7/9, 2016 at 18:21

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Is there a way to make argparse recognize anything between two quotes as a single argument? It seems to keep seeing the dashes and assuming that it's the start of a new option I have something lik...
Shanika asked 23/4, 2013 at 16:55

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I'm using Python3 argparse for complicated command-line interface. Lots of arguments, some of them are "verbose" to avoid misunderstandings. parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Command-l...
Dever asked 2/10, 2018 at 8:55

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I'm using Python 3.4, I'm trying to use argparse with subparsers, and I want to have a similar behavior to the one in Python 2.x where if I don't supply a positional argument (to indicate the subpa...
Clouded asked 28/4, 2014 at 19:12

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The poetry documentation says that the script section can be used to install scripts or executable when the package is installed. But it does not show any example of how to pass arguments to the sc...
Amyamyas asked 10/5, 2021 at 18:55

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Is there a way to print usage text after the description text with python argparse? I have my cmd line argparse working, but i would like to print version info before usage info. Edit: version: 1...
Incomparable asked 13/3, 2014 at 14:57

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I'm currently starting up the server with the following Uvicorn command: main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8003 --access-log And I would like to add an extra argument --foo such that it works as argp...
Brena asked 29/11, 2022 at 17:1

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I am implementing a command line program which has interface like this: cmd [GLOBAL_OPTIONS] {command [COMMAND_OPTS]} [{command [COMMAND_OPTS]} ...] I have gone through the argparse documentatio...
Selemas asked 4/5, 2012 at 11:44

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I would like to use argparse to parse boolean command-line arguments written as "--foo True" or "--foo False". For example: my_program --my_boolean_flag False However, the following test code do...
Bike asked 21/2, 2013 at 17:37

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Basically imagine that I have argparser that has multiple arguments. I have a particular function definition that looks like this: def add_to_parser(self, parser): group = parser.add_argument_gr...
Malposition asked 16/11, 2016 at 22:22

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I have the following import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='macc', usage='macc [options] [address]') parser.add_argument('-l', '--list', help='Lists MAC Addresses') args = parser....
Supermundane asked 16/12, 2019 at 19:44

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GNU getopt, and command line tools that use it, allow options and arguments to be interleaved, known as permuting options (see http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Using-Getopt.html#Us...
Successful asked 2/3, 2012 at 17:15

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I want to pass a list of names into my program written in Python from console. For instance, I would like to use a way similar to this (I know it shouldn't work because of bash): $ python myprog.p...
Outset asked 4/5, 2017 at 14:48

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I created an argparse.ArgumentParser and added specific arguments like: parser.add_argument('-i', action='store', dest='i', default='i.log') parser.add_argument('-o', action='store', dest='o', defa...
Cora asked 3/4, 2014 at 22:41

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Background Many command-line utilities provide special handling for all arguments after a double dash (--). Examples: git diff: All arguments after -- are paths (which can start with -): git diff [...
Mistaken asked 12/1 at 21:33

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I want to use the standard library argparse module to parse command line arguments to my program, and have the program accept an optional argument -i (or --image) which is a dictionary. I tried con...
Lambeth asked 2/10, 2011 at 10:17

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I am trying to use mypy to type check my program. The program uses argparse to parse command line arguments. I want to add type hints for the command line arguments. import argparse import typing ...
Chine asked 4/6, 2019 at 9:42

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How do I create an argument parser (argparse.ArgumentParser) from a Pydantic model? I have a Pydantic model: from pydantic import BaseModel, Field class MyItem(BaseModel): name: str age: int co...
Catercousin asked 24/6, 2022 at 9:10

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