argument problem in optparse

[John Machin]

On Mar 21, 3:44 am, Qian Xu <quian... at stud.tu-ilmenau.de> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a problem with OptParse.
> I want to define such an arugument. It can accept additional value or no
> value.
>
> "myscript.py --unittest File1,File2"
> "myscript.py --unittest"
>
> Is it possible in OptParse? I have tried several combination. But ...

Do you meen the included optparse module, or something else? Case
matters :-)

Do you really want no value (and how would you expect optparse to tell
you it got no value?), or would an empty string suffice?

The following should work on Windows; adjust depending on your shell's
quoting/escaping mechanism for getting an empty string or a string
containing whitespace as exactly 1 arg:

myscript.py --unittest "File1, File2"
myscript.py --unittest ""

POC:
command-prompt>python -c "import sys; print sys.argv[1:]" foo "
baa baa" "" zot
['foo', 'baa baa', '', 'zot']

HTH,
John