Re: Determine actually given command line arguments

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> Yes, I was trying that and it sort of works with strings if I use something sufficiently improbable like "__UNSELECTED__" as default.  But it gets difficult with boolean or even number arguments where you just may not have valid "improbable" defaults.  You could now say, so what, it's the default anyway.  But in my program I would like to distinguish between given and not given arguments rather than between default and non-default.

Initialize all your arg variables to None, then after command line
processing, any which remain as None weren't set on the command line.
At that point, set them to the actual defaults.  I think that's a
pretty common idiom.

Note: I am an old cranky dude and still use getopt.  This idiom is
pretty easy there.  YMMV with argparse or optparse.

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Determine actually given command line arguments Henry Leyh <henry.leyh@ipp.mpg.de> - 2013-05-15 08:34 +0200
  Re: Determine actually given command line arguments "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca> - 2013-05-15 08:03 -0400
    Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-05-15 15:51 +0300
  Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-15 08:24 -0400
    Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-15 08:51 -0400
    Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Henry Leyh <henry.leyh@ipp.mpg.de> - 2013-05-15 14:52 +0200
      Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-05-15 14:00 +0100
        Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Henry Leyh <henry.leyh@ipp.mpg.de> - 2013-05-15 15:50 +0200
          Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-05-15 09:08 -0500
            Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Henry Leyh <henry.leyh@ipp.mpg.de> - 2013-05-15 16:39 +0200
              Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-05-15 09:51 -0500
          Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Wayne Werner <wayne@waynewerner.com> - 2013-05-15 09:16 -0500
      Re: Determine actually given command line arguments roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) - 2013-05-15 11:29 -0400
        Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Henry Leyh <henry.leyh@ipp.mpg.de> - 2013-05-16 07:43 +0200
          Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-05-16 09:08 +0300
            Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Henry Leyh <henry.leyh@ipp.mpg.de> - 2013-05-16 09:29 +0200

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