On Jun 8, 10:38 am, hiral <hiralsmaill...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using optparser to do following... > > Command syntax: > myscript -o[exension] other_arguments > where; extension can be 'exe', 'txt', 'pdf', 'ppt' etc. > > Now to parse this, I am doing following... > > parser.add_option("-oexe', dest=exe_file...) > parser.add_option("-otxt', dest=txt_file...) > parser.add_option("-opdf', dest=pdf_file...) > parser.add_option("-oppt', dest=ppt_file...) > > The above way is the most simple way to parser options. > Can you please suggest any other best way / optimized way to parse > these kind of options. > > Thank you in advance.
Use plac: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plac Here is an example: import plac EXTENSIONS = ('exe', 'txt', 'pdf', 'ppt') @plac.annotations( ext=('a valid extension', 'option', 'o', None, EXTENSIONS)) def main(ext, *args): "Do something" if __name__ == '__main__': plac.call(main) $ python myscript.py -h usage: myscript.py [-h] [-o {exe,txt,pdf,ppt}] [args [args ...]] Do something positional arguments: args optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -o, --ext {exe,txt,pdf,ppt} a valid extension -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list