Thank you James, but I just can't optparse to accept an array, only integers, floats ans strings.
My code looks like this from optparse import OptionParser parser = OptionParser() parser.add_option('-t', '--dt', action='store', type='float', dest='dt_i', default=0.1, help='time increment where lsoda saves results') parser.add_option('-T', '--tstop', action='store', type='float', dest='tstop_i', default=1.0, help='duration of the solution') parser.add_option('-m', '--mass_vector', action='store', type='float', dest='m_i', default=[1.0, 1.0], help='vector with lumped masses') op, args = parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:]) I want this to work for m_i = array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0]) but the optparse complains that m_i is not a float. Best regards, Johan On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:53 AM, James Mills <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au>wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Johan Ekh <ekh.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you Robert, > > but what if I just want to create an array interactively, e.g. like m = > > array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0]), and pass it > > to my program? I tried extending optparse with a new type as explained in > > the link you gave me > > but I was not able to get it to work. Is it really neccessary follow that > > route just to pass an array? > > Lot's of people must have done this before! > > Normally command line applications accept > a number of arguments which are available > in sys.argv > > cheers > James >
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