Optparse and varible nargs
Paddy McCarthy
paddy3118 at netscape.net
Tue Nov 4 16:23:21 EST 2003
John Goebel <jgoebel987 at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.11.03.19.10.34.993533 at yahoo.com>...
> I have a program that I want to pass a variable number of things too.
>
> foo_prog -f one two three
>
> optparse has the nargs feature, but it is determinant; you have to know
> how many variables are going to be passed.
>
> Is there a suggestion on how to use optparse with something like:
>
> nargs = >1?
>
> Thanks,
> John
Normally see solutions to this kind of thing where you are allowed to
enter one option that can be a list of items with a defined separator,
e.g. if you opt for a space separator your line would be
foo_prog -f 'one two three'
Or a colon as a separator:
foo_prog -f 'one:two:three'
You would use optparse to return the one string for the -f option then
split it on the agreed separator to produce the list of values.
Cheers, Paddy.
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