RE: argparse and subparsers

From	"Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale@activenetwerx.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	RE: argparse and subparsers
Date	2016-06-28 02:22 +0000
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> Not sure if this fits the bill, or makes sense here, but I came cross
> "docopt" which touts itself as a "Command-line interface description
> language". I used it in a project and it seems to be pretty easy to use
> as well as elegant. It stores the arguments & values as a dictionary,
> keyed by the argument.

Yea I have had my eye on docopt for a while, it doesn't support multiple
subparsers, as I am passing duplicate parameters from its perspective.

Imagine:

foo.py --host 172.18.0.4 --port 766 foo --warning 42 --critical 77 bar --warning 4.2 --critical 7.7

etc...

The shortcoming to argparse has been debated to death and the bug tracker
was just left hanging. To be honest, I am not clear on the opposition to it...

Thanks,
jlc

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argparse and subparsers "Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale@activenetwerx.com> - 2016-06-26 18:51 +0000
  Re: argparse and subparsers Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-26 20:15 -0700
  Re: argparse and subparsers Sachin Garg <s.garg.computer@gmail.com> - 2016-06-27 00:55 -0400
    Re: argparse and subparsers Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-26 22:34 -0700
      Re: argparse and subparsers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-27 20:28 +1000
        Re: argparse and subparsers Sachin Garg <s.garg.computer@gmail.com> - 2016-06-27 13:22 -0400
          Re: argparse and subparsers Michele Simionato <michele.simionato@gmail.com> - 2016-06-28 03:02 -0700
    RE: argparse and subparsers "Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale@activenetwerx.com> - 2016-06-28 02:22 +0000

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