I have read the manual first of all :). on using optionparser for the input of command line arguments and inputs. I understand everything there was in the manual except how to extend the parser to accept a multiple list of input that is comma delimited....
for example: ./convertContacts3.py -i a.vcf,b.vcf,c.vcf,d.vcf I want to be able to allow multiple filenames for one argument variable. Here is what I have so far and what I was wondering is how do I apply this subclass to the -i option so that it will gather the multiple filename inputs? .......... from optparse import OptionParser .......... class MyOption(Option): ACTIONS = Option.ACTIONS + ("extend",) STORE_ACTIONS = Option.STORE_ACTIONS + ("extend",) TYPED_ACTIONS = Option.TYPED_ACTIONS + ("extend",) ALWAYS_TYPED_ACTIONS = Option.ALWAYS_TYPED_ACTIONS + ("extend",) def take_action(self, action, dest, opt, value, values, parser): if action == "extend": lvalue = value.split(",") values.ensure_value(dest, []).extend(lvalue) else: Option.take_action(self, action, dest, opt, value, values, parser) def main(): usage = "usage: %prog -i<filename>|-p<pathname> -o<filename> - d<option> -q -v" version = "%prog v0.3.000 2009-11-25 - by .........................................." description = "This program was designed to take the information within a vcard and export it's contents to a csv file for easy import into other address book clients." parser = OptionParser(usage, version, description) parser.add_option("-i", "--input", action="store", dest="input_file", default="None", help="Read data from FILENAME (required if no path specified)") parser.add_option("-p", "--path", action="store", dest="input_path", default="None", help="Process all vcards within specified directory (required if no filename specified)") parser.add_option("-o", "--output", action="store", dest="output_file", default="addrs.csv", help="Name of .csv file to output too (default is addrs.csv)") parser.add_option("-d", "--delim", action="", dest="delimiter", default="\t", help="Delimiter to use: comma, semicolon, newline, tab (default is tab)") parser.add_option("-q", "--quote", action="store_true", dest="quote", default=False, help="Double quote the output strings (default is off)") parser.add_option("-v", "--verbose", action="store_false", dest="verbose", default=True, help="Show processing information (default is on)") parser.add_option("--trace", action="store_true", dest="trace", default=False, help="Displays a ton of debugging information.") (options, args) = parser.parse_args() .......... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list