Try this on your *nix command line: echo ">$100"
On a *nix command line, the '$1' part of ">$100" will be seen as 'give me the
value of the shell variable "1"', and since it has no value, will result in an
empty string. So it's not optparse, or Python, because the literal string you
intend to
tazz_ben wrote:
> So, I'm using optparse as follows:
>
> Command line:
> python expense.py ">$100" -f ~/desktop/test.txt
> ['>00']
>
>
> In Main:
>
> desc = ''
> p = optparse.OptionParser(description=desc)
>
> utilities = optparse.OptionGroup(p, 'Utility Options')
> utilities.add_option('--fi
In
tazz_ben writes:
> So, any ideas? Why is including a $ eating both the dollar signa and the 1?
Unix command lines tend to assume any $ inside double-quotes is a shell
variable name. Try enclosing in single-quotes instead.
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So, I'm using optparse as follows:
Command line:
python expense.py ">$100" -f ~/desktop/test.txt
['>00']
In Main:
desc = ''
p = optparse.OptionParser(description=desc)
utilities = optparse.OptionGroup(p, 'Utility Options')
utilities.add_option('--file', '-f', dest="file", help="Define
