glad to be helpful and give my 2 cents to this community.
your helptext is definetely acceptable, in the long run maybe a
comment in the code will be more helpful than the "explicit"
helpstring of optparse
Niphlod
On Dec 30, 11:06 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Niphlod wrote:
>
>
>
> > uhm....
> > virtually very very very draft of Jonathan's concept.....
>
> That looks about right, perhaps with some minor wording changes:
>
> help='exit after saving password' (no sense in confusing the user
> about file names, and there's really no other initialization involved)
>
> print 'no password to save; exiting'
>
> (remove the "Creating..." print)
> print 'password saved; exiting'
>
>
>
> > in gluon/widget.py , after "if '-A' in sys.argv: k = sys.argv.index('-
> > A')" (line 695, in trunk), add:
>
> > parser.add_option('',
> > '--exit',
> > action='store_true',
> > dest='force_exit',
> > default=False,
> > help='allows to save parameters.py file in order
> > to initialize the environment'
> > )
>
> > then, before " if options.quiet:" (line 704, in trunk):
>
> > if options.force_exit and options.password == '<ask>':
> > options.password = raw_input('choose a password:')
> > if not options.password:
> > print 'no password, --exit specified, clean shutdown'
> > sys.exit(0)
> > if options.force_exit and options.password:
> > print 'Creating parameters.py file'
> > main.save_password(options.password, options.port)
> > print 'parameters.py created, now exiting'
> > sys.exit(0)
>
> > tested and working....
>
> > eg: you can call
> >> web2py.py -a yourpass --exit
> >> web2py.py -a '<recycle>'
>
> > and everything works.
>
> > Make sure you start the webserver with the same port (default 8000,
> > can be overridden with -p)
>
> > Humbly helping ^_^
>
> > Happy new year, if we'll not see within the next days....
>
>
