On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 6:56:41 AM UTC+12, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > This has become unmaintainable as the manual slicing is always subject > to a new case by where a parser has a positional, switch or optional > parameter for example. Also, since argv is grouped by subparser > specifiers, if a parameter has input that matches a keyword > it all goes pear shaped.
Write your own parser. It’s not hard--the common Unix/Linux command line conventions are quite simple, and it’s already pre-split into words for you. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
