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Questions - subparsers

argparse add subparser that starts with a dash

I'm trying to create a Pacman wrapper in Python. I'm having trouble to parse the arguments in the same way Pacman does. (Described at https://man.archlinux.org/man/pacman.8) In order to parse the arg...
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simonzack

python

argparse

subparsers

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python argparse two subparsers are basically same.. almost

is it possible to extend subparsers new names without implementing all of their parameters twice? I have a program, let's call it pgmm which has a sub function create. This create function needs a con...
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TecDroiD

python

argparse

subparsers

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Answers: 1

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I don't know of a way of adding this logic to argparse per se, but you don't have to do that to get the behavior you want. You can create a subparser for create and add init as an alias for that comm...
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CryptoFool

Argument Parser Problem: Optional argument with then 3 required subarguments

I am writing an argument parser for a program. The current parser behaves like: Simulate Roboy in MuJoCo. positional arguments: P Proportional Gain I Derivatio...
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Florian Schneider

python

python-3.x

argparse

subparsers

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.add_argument() can take an nargs argument that specifies how many subarguments to take. So, you can do the following: parser.add_argument('--playBag', nargs=3) though you will need to manually trans...
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BrokenBenchmark

Argparse outputting help text twice

After an hour googling, I can't find anybody who has had anything resembling this issue besides myself. I created a command line interface with argparse. Originally I had tried to leverage argparse's ...
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Derek1st

python

command-line-interface

argparse

subparsers

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With a modification of your main: def foo(): # Import help text from file # p = Path(__file__).with_name("help_text.txt") # with p.open() as file: # help_text = file.read(...
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hpaulj

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