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RE: [argparse] mutually exclusive group with 2 sets of options

From	"Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale@activenetwerx.com>
Subject	RE: [argparse] mutually exclusive group with 2 sets of options
Date	2013-08-05 22:15 +0000
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> I think you are looking for exclusive groups:
> 
> http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/argparse.html#argparse.add_mutually_excl
> usive_group

No. That links first doc line in that method shows the very point we are all discussing:

"Create a mutually exclusive group. argparse will make sure that only one
of the arguments in the mutually exclusive group was present on the
command line:"

Op requires more than one per group, this method "make sure that only one
of the arguments" is accepted.

jlc

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[argparse] mutually exclusive group with 2 sets of options Francois Lafont <francois.lafont@nospam.invalid> - 2013-08-04 04:10 +0200
  Re: [argparse] mutually exclusive group with 2 sets of options Francois Lafont <francois.lafont@nospam.invalid> - 2013-08-05 04:05 +0200
    Re: [argparse] mutually exclusive group with 2 sets of options Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-05 04:53 +0100
  Re: [argparse] mutually exclusive group with 2 sets of options Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2013-08-05 07:11 -0700
    RE: [argparse] mutually exclusive group with 2 sets of options "Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale@activenetwerx.com> - 2013-08-05 17:11 +0000
    Re: [argparse] mutually exclusive group with 2 sets of options Francois Lafont <francois.lafont@nospam.invalid> - 2013-08-06 00:13 +0200
  Re: [argparse] mutually exclusive group with 2 sets of options Rafael Durán Castañeda <rafadurancastaneda@gmail.com> - 2013-08-05 22:01 +0200
    Re: [argparse] mutually exclusive group with 2 sets of options Francois Lafont <francois.lafont@nospam.invalid> - 2013-08-06 00:34 +0200
      Re: [argparse] mutually exclusive group with 2 sets of options Francois Lafont <francois.lafont@nospam.invalid> - 2013-08-07 01:18 +0200
        Re: [argparse] mutually exclusive group with 2 sets of options Francois Lafont <francois.lafont@nospam.invalid> - 2013-08-07 01:36 +0200
  RE: [argparse] mutually exclusive group with 2 sets of options "Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale@activenetwerx.com> - 2013-08-05 22:15 +0000

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