braver wrote:
> Posted to the Optik list, but it seems defunct. Optik is now Python's
> optparse.
>
> I wonder how do you implement optional arguments to Optik.
You may want to check out argparse:
http://argparse.python-hosting.com/
It supports optional arguments like this::
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('-P', metavar='file', nargs='?', const='data')
args = parser.parse_args()
if args.file is not None:
# -P was supplied, so do something with the file
# if no argument to -P was given, it will be 'data'
> Another question I have it how can I output a docstring right from the
> parser.add_option() block? I prefer to define all option-related
> things in the same block once. I'd like to output the help value from
> the block, or append it to a report.
>
> Here's example from my Ruby wrapper for Ruby's optparse:
I don't understand what you want here (and I don't understand the Ruby
code). Can you try explaining what you're trying to do here a different
way?
STeVe
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