Hi -- brand new to python, but trying to write a simple script that takes command line arguments. One of the arguments needs to test if a value is a) an integer and b) within a stated range. I currently have:
parser.add_argument("-f", "--floor", default=6000, help="floor is the minimum amount of bonus points.",type=int, choices=range(5995, 6001)) This works, but when the user enters an out of bounds value, the help message is unfriendly: % ./bonus.py -f 10000 usage: bonus.py [-h] [-f {5995,5996,5997,5998,5999,6000}] MAM-bonus.py: error: argument -f/--floor: invalid choice: 10000 (choose from 5995, 5996, 5997, 5998, 5999, 6000) The problem is my default range is actually 0,10000 -- I changed it above for brevity's sake. So in the real world, it floods the screen to the point where it's unreadable. I can suppress the whole thing with argparse.SUPPRESS, but then I'm left with no help message at all. Is there a way to suppress the "(choose from 1,2,3,etc.)" part of the help message? Or a cleaner/different way altogether to accomplish the same thing? thanks.
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