Re: Option parser question - reading options from file as well as command line

2006-05-22 Thread Tim N. van der Leeuw
Andrew Robert wrote: Hi Everyone. I tried the following to get input into optionparser from either a file or command line. Hi Andrew, I played around a bit more, not happy that the read_file method which I discovered earlier on the Values - object takes a property-file like input and

Re: Option parser question - reading options from file as well as command line

2006-05-17 Thread Tim N. van der Leeuw
Andrew Robert wrote: Hi Everyone. I tried the following to get input into optionparser from either a file or command line. The code below detects the passed file argument and prints the file contents but the individual swithces do not get passed to option parser. After reading your

Re: Option parser question - reading options from file as well as command line

2006-05-17 Thread Andrew Robert
Tim N. van der Leeuw wrote: Andrew Robert wrote: Hi Everyone. I tried the following to get input into optionparser from either a file or command line. The code below detects the passed file argument and prints the file contents but the individual swithces do not get passed to option

Re: Option parser question - reading options from file as well as command line

2006-05-17 Thread Tim N. van der Leeuw
Andrew Robert wrote: Tim N. van der Leeuw wrote: Andrew Robert wrote: [...] Hi Tim, I am using the pymqi module which is freely available at http://pymqi.sourceforge.net/ . Documentation on the module can be found at http://pymqi.sourceforge.net/pymqidoc.html . I have a few python

Option parser question - reading options from file as well as command line

2006-05-16 Thread Andrew Robert
Hi Everyone. I tried the following to get input into optionparser from either a file or command line. The code below detects the passed file argument and prints the file contents but the individual swithces do not get passed to option parser. Doing a test print of options.qmanager shows it

Re: Option parser question - reading options from file as well as command line

2006-05-16 Thread Max Erickson
Andrew Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Everyone. I tried the following to get input into optionparser from either a file or command line. The code below detects the passed file argument and prints the file contents but the individual swithces do not get

Re: Option parser question - reading options from file as well as command line

2006-05-16 Thread Andrew Robert
Max Erickson wrote: Andrew Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip \snip Check parser.usage, it is likely to look a lot like your infile. I'm not sure, but I think you need to pass your alternative arguments to parser.parse_args. max Hi Max, I tried

Re: Option parser question - reading options from file as well as command line

2006-05-16 Thread Max Erickson
Andrew Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any ideas? I don't know much about optparse, but since I was bored: help(o.parse_args) Help on method parse_args in module optparse: parse_args(self, args=None, values=None) method of optparse.OptionParser instance

Re: Option parser question - reading options from file as well as command line

2006-05-16 Thread Andrew Robert
Max Erickson wrote: I don't know much about optparse, but since I was bored: help(o.parse_args) Help on method parse_args in module optparse: parse_args(self, args=None, values=None) method of optparse.OptionParser instance parse_args(args : [string] = sys.argv[1:],