Hi, I noticed a "strange" behavior of argparse. When running a simple code like the following:
import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument( "-o", default = 'fake', dest = 'OutputFile', type = argparse.FileType('w') ) args = parser.parse_args() I noticed that the default file (fake) is created every time I run the code, even when I explicitly set the -o flag, in which case it will produce both files. My goal instead is to erite the default file ONLY if the flag is not specified. For the moment, I solved it simply by removing the "default=fake" and adding the "required=True" keyword, but I was wondering what is the correct way of doing it (or if it is simply a bug). Thank you, Paolo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list