On Nov 19, 11:36 pm, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 19, 10:21 pm,tekion<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > Could some one take a look at the below code snipet which keep > > failing: > > > import optparse > > p = optparse.OptionParser(description="script to do stuff", > > prog="myscript.py", ....) > > p.add_option("-c" "--compress", help="0 is noncompress") > > function1(options.compress) > > > here's what the what function definition looks like: > > function1(zipfile) : > > if (zipfile == 1): > > do stuff here with for compress file > > else > > do stuff here > > > when I call the script "myscript.py 1", the above test keeps falling > > to the else clause. I am thinking the object zipfile is not the same > > as "1". Any thoughts as how I should test if the argument being pass > > in and parse by optparse is 1 or "0"? Thanks. > > 1 (without quotes) is not the same as "1" (with quotes); the first is > an integer, the second a string. optparse returns strings by default, > so the easiest change would be to make the check 'if zipfile == "1"'. > > Even better, since it's a boolean option, pass action="store_true" to > p.add_option(). The test then is reduced to "if zipfile" and the > program is to be called by "myscript.py -c". Read the docs [1] for > more details. > > HTH, > George > > [1]http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html#standard-option-actions
Thanks. This fixed it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list