What's the easiest, tersest, and most flexible method or library for parsing Python command line arguments?

Feb 29, 2012 · Conditional command line arguments in Python using argparse Asked 13 years, 10 months ago Modified 3 years, 3 months ago Viewed 41k times

May 27, 2021 · Use it. argparse does a ton of useful things, and if you just take one short example and don't explore any further, you'll misuse it. Asking to use argparse without "a lot of code" to learn from …

I am trying to pass a list as an argument to a command line program. Is there an argparse option to pass a list as option? parser.add_argument('-l', '--list', type=list, acti...

When I run parsePlotSens.py -s bw hehe, it says that hehe is an unrecognized argument. However, if I run parsePlotSens.py hehe -s bw, it's OK. Ideally, I would like it work for both cases. Any ti...

I want to accept a directory path as user input in an add_argument() of ArgumentParser(). So far, I have written this: import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument('path',

Mar 28, 2015 · Display help message with Python argparse when script is called without any arguments Asked 15 years, 2 months ago Modified 1 year, 3 months ago Viewed 265k times

I noticed that the Python 2.7 documentation includes yet another command-line parsing module. In addition to getopt and optparse we now have argparse. Why has yet another command-line parsing …

30 ConfigArgParse adds support for environment variables to argparse, so you can do things like:

3 There are some argparse alternatives which you can easily manage cases like what you mentioned. packages like: click or docopt. If we want to get around the manual implementation of chain …