On Jul 15, 4:28 pm, "Joel Koltner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> "Sion Arrowsmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > What's wrong with sys.argv ?
>
> Mainly that it doesn't exist. :-) The example was slightly contrived -- I'm
> really dealing with commands interactively entered within a program in
> response to raw_input(), although the format of the commands is meant to be
> consistent with command-line usage. (A real command, for instance, would be
> something like this: load "my firmware file.bin" .)
>
> I ended up using shlex.strip() -- works great!
>
> ---Joel
Then... better yet... check out the cmd module (you can still use
shlex if you like).
[code]
import cmd
class MyCmd(cmd.Cmd):
def do_blah(self, args):
"""Sing a song about bla"""
print >>self.stdout, "bla bla bla"
def do_foo(self, args):
"""Prints out the args"""
print >>self.stdout, repr(args)
def do_quit(self, args):
"""exit the command interpreter"""
print >>self.stdout, "bye bye"
return True
do_exit = do_q = do_quit
if __name__ == "__main__":
MyCmd().cmdloop()
[/code]
When run, you will get a "(cmd)" prompt:
(Cmd) help
Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
blah exit foo q quit
Undocumented commands:
======================
help
(Cmd) help blah
Sing a song about bla
(Cmd) help exit
exit the command interpreter
(Cmd) help foo
Prints out the args
(Cmd) qu
*** Unknown syntax: qu
(Cmd) quit
bye bye
Documentation here: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-cmd.html
Matt
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