On Oct 15, 10:29 pm, Mark Harrison <m...@ohm.dynamic.pixar.com> wrote:
> What's the magic to allow this? If the value is not specified I
> would like to use the default value of 1.
>
> import optparse
> p=optparse.OptionParser()
> p.add_option("--debug")
>
> (opts, args) = p.parse_args(['--debug=22']); print opts
> (opts, args) = p.parse_args(['--debug']); print opts
Unless you need to avoid third-party dependencies, install argparse
(http://code.google.com/p/argparse) and don't give optparse another
look.
With argparse (which has a similar but not compatible api) you can do
it like this:
p=optparse.ArgumentParser()
p.add_argument("--debug",nargs='?')
Carl Banks
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