Does a mutually exclusive group, as described in "Mutual exclusion" at https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html meet your needs?
On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 9:48 AM hongy...@gmail.com <hongyi.z...@gmail.com> wrote: > See the following code snippets [1] for implementation of the exclusive > options with argparse: > > def query_builder(args): > if args.r and args.s: > sys.exit(Term.FAIL + 'Only one of -re and -sql should be set' + > Term.ENDC) > sum_status = sum(1 for x in [args.failure, args.code != -1] if x) > if sum_status > 1: > sys.exit(Term.FAIL + ('Only one of --failure and --code has to be > set') + Term.ENDC) > > [1] > https://github.com/hongyi-zhao/recent2/blob/5486afbd56a6b06bb149a3ea969fb33d9d8b288f/recent2.py#L391 > > It seems that the above method is awkward, but I'm out of idea to work out > more graceful solutions. Any comment/suggestion/enhancement will be highly > appreciated. > > Regards, > HY > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- +1-202-507-9867, Twitter @lcongdon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list