optparse multiple arguments

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hi,

I'm having some minor problems with optparse. I'm just worried that
someone shouldn't say that multiple argument feature isn't implemented
in optpartse.

How to tackle multiple arguments to an option ?
As far as I dug, I've found that >1 arguments are being ignored.

parser.add_option("", "--my-option", dest="my_option", action="store",
type="string")

Now if someone uses it as:
../foo --my-option a b c

I want somehow to store all the three arguments but my_option stores
only "a" while ignoring b and c.

Any help?

Ritesh

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

Hi,

I'm having some minor problems with optparse. I'm just worried that
someone shouldn't say that multiple argument feature isn't implemented
in optpartse.

How to tackle multiple arguments to an option ?
As far as I dug, I've found that >1 arguments are being ignored.

parser.add_option("", "--my-option", dest="my_option", action="store",
type="string")

Now if someone uses it as:
./foo --my-option a b c

I want somehow to store all the three arguments but my_option stores
only "a" while ignoring b and c.

I just noticed that the args variable is holding values b and c.
the args variables comes from:
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()

I guess I only need to figure out now is why args isn't storing
argument "a" also...

Ritesh

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

I just noticed that the args variable is holding values b and c.
the args variables comes from:
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()

I guess I only need to figure out now is why args isn't storing
argument "a" also...

Ritesh

I fixed it, I guess.

parser.add_option("", "--my-option", dest="my_option",
action="store_true")

sets my_option to True and the arguments are all stored in the list
"args". :-)

Ritesh

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

I guess I only need to figure out now is why args isn't storing
argument "a" also...

I fixed it, I guess.

parser.add_option("", "--my-option", dest="my_option",
action="store_true")

sets my_option to True and the arguments are all stored in the list
"args". :-)

note that whatever action you're using, args holds the *remaining* arguments, after
option processing.

</F>

[Simon Percivall]

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

I just noticed that the args variable is holding values b and c.
the args variables comes from:
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()

I guess I only need to figure out now is why args isn't storing
argument "a" also...

Ritesh

I fixed it, I guess.

parser.add_option("", "--my-option", dest="my_option",
action="store_true")

sets my_option to True and the arguments are all stored in the list
"args". :-)

Ritesh

It might do you good to read the documentation instead of blindly
experimenting.

Anyway,

parser.add_option("", "--my-option", nargs=3)

http://docs.python.org/lib/optparse-...n-actions.html

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Simon Percivall wrote:

It might do you good to read the documentation instead of blindly
experimenting.

Anyway,

parser.add_option("", "--my-option", nargs=3)

http://docs.python.org/lib/optparse-...n-actions.html

That won't help because by design of my program, I can't limit the
number of arguments a user can pass to it.

Ritesh

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

http://docs.python.org/lib/optparse-...n-actions.html

That won't help because by design of my program, I can't limit the
number of arguments a user can pass to it.

do you want options, arguments, or are you just somewhat confused ?

</F>

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

http://docs.python.org/lib/optparse-...n-actions.html

That won't help because by design of my program, I can't limit the
number of arguments a user can pass to it.

do you want options, arguments, or are you just somewhat confused ?

</F>

I'm not sure about that.

My program will accept user input. The user can input multiple
arguments. maybe 1 or maybe 100, that's not definite. I do need option
because this particular (multiple) argument criteria is for one single
option.

Thanks,
Ritesh

[Steven Bethard]

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

Now if someone uses it as:
./foo --my-option a b c

I want somehow to store all the three arguments

Currently optparse doesn't support options with an arbitrary number of
arguments. I'm currently working on a optparse-inspired replacement
which does support this along the lines of:

parser.add_option('--my-option', nargs='*')

but it's not quite ready for prime-time yet. I'm hoping to put an
announcement out in the next couple of weeks.

STeVe