On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Santosh Kumar <sntshkm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> To do what you're looking for there, I wouldn't bother with argparse >> at all - I'd just look at sys.argv[1] for the word you're looking for. >> Yes, it'd be a bit strict and simplistic, but by the look of things, >> you don't need sophistication. > > You are right, but I think sys.argv is very basic. Before argparse > even I was using it, but it was very hard to manage if user has less > argument, more argument or more argument. I think argparse is the > better thing than sys.argv, and I believe there might be any way to > tackle my (argparse) problem. That is what I am looking here for.
Sure. In the actual example posted, I wouldn't bother, but it's like migrating a script from bash to a more maintainable language - it's something to think about as soon as the script gets over about a page of code. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list