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codecaine · 01-23-2010, 03:46 PM

Code:

import optparse;

#Coded by codecaine aka Jerome Scott II

parser = optparse.OptionParser();

#add argument options as you can see with this first one -n and --name can be use to name the name as a type string

parser.add_option("-n", "--name", dest="name",type="string");

#add argument options -a or --age can be use as the age argument you can unlimited arguments for that type and the type is int. The type section is optional

parser.add_option("-a", "--age", dest="age", type="int");

I made a post showing getopts before but this method is newer and recommended to use.

#Here is optional but recommended setting default values for arguments not set by the user

parser.set_defaults(name="", age=0);

#make a usage message if the user not using the program correct it will display

parser.set_usage("python opttest.py -n -name -a --age");

#checking if the user enter a name if not display the usage message

opts, args = parser.parse_args();

if opts.name == "":

    print("You must enter a name argument for this program using the -n or --name");

    print(parser.get_usage());

else:

    #display results

    print(opts.name + " " + str(opts.age));

***drdebcol*** · 01-24-2010, 10:13 PM

Very good. I like the way of adding options to parser.