On Mar 21, 3:44 am, Qian Xu <quian...@stud.tu-ilmenau.de> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a problem with OptParse. > I want to define such an arugument. It can accept additional value or no > value. > > "myscript.py --unittest File1,File2" > "myscript.py --unittest" > > Is it possible in OptParse? I have tried several combination. But ...
Do you meen the included optparse module, or something else? Case matters :-) Do you really want no value (and how would you expect optparse to tell you it got no value?), or would an empty string suffice? The following should work on Windows; adjust depending on your shell's quoting/escaping mechanism for getting an empty string or a string containing whitespace as exactly 1 arg: myscript.py --unittest "File1, File2" myscript.py --unittest "" POC: command-prompt>python -c "import sys; print sys.argv[1:]" foo " baa baa" "" zot ['foo', 'baa baa', '', 'zot'] HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
