On Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:02:06 UTC+10, Sayth Renshaw wrote: > So how do i get argparse to read the file arguments correctly? > > Looking at the namespace it all gets pushed into path and extension remains > empty. > > [sayth@localhost pyXML]$ python3 racemeeting.py data/ *.xml > Namespace(extension='', path=['data/', '*.xml']) > > This is the section I am running > > parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() > parser.add_argument("path", nargs="+") > parser.add_argument('-e', '--extension', default='', > help='File extension to filter by.') > > args = parser.parse_args() > name_pattern = "*" + args.extension > print(args) > > Sayth
Ah if only i used argparse properly python racemeeting.py data/ -e *.xml Sayth -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list