On Apr 8, 11:58 pm, Karim <karim.liat...@free.fr> wrote: > On 04/07/2011 10:37 AM, markolopa wrote: > > > Is there support/idioms/suggestions for usingoptparsewithout a > >commandline? > > > I have a code which used to be called through subprocess. The whole > > flow of the code is based on what 'options' object fromoptparse > > contains. > > > Now I want to call this code without subprocessing. What I did first > > was to build a "fake"command-line and use > > > options, args = parser.parse_args(fake_cmdline) > > > But I find it dumb to encode and decode a dictionary... So I would > > like to know how I if there is a good way of passing a dictionary to > >optparseand benefiting from its option management (check, error > > detection, etc). > > Move to the best module on args parsing: argparse it is way, way, way > better no equivalent in any others language. > No tuple when parsing but a simple Namespace objects and very easy to > port. Go have a look in std libs (>=v2.7).
argparse seems great for my needs, in particular because the usage of namespace objects. Do you know if there is a way to use it with Python 2.6? My colleagues won't accept to upgrade the Python version anytime soon. Thanks a lot! Marko -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list