Re: argparse - specify order of argument parsing?

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Date	Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:17:33 -0400
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On 8/31/2013 2:13 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 8/31/2013 1:11 PM, Eduardo Alvarez wrote:
>> When using argparse, is there a way to specify in what order arguments
>> get parsed?
>
> I expect argparse to forward iterate the sequence of arguments that it
> receives.

Aside from the environment variable solution, you could search sys.argv 
for 'config=filename' and remove it and process it *before* you invoke 
argparse.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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argparse - specify order of argument parsing? Eduardo Alvarez <!nospam!astrochelonian@gmail.com> - 2013-08-31 13:11 -0400
  Re: argparse - specify order of argument parsing? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-08-31 12:50 -0500
  Re: argparse - specify order of argument parsing? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-31 14:13 -0400
  Re: argparse - specify order of argument parsing? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-31 14:17 -0400
  Re: argparse - specify order of argument parsing? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-09-01 08:53 +0200

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