[Python-Dev] PEP 389: argparse - new command line parsing module (original) (raw)

Andrew McNabb amcnabb at mcnabbs.org
Thu Oct 1 00:58:00 CEST 2009


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 02:40:20PM -0700, Steven Bethard wrote:

> Also, is it possible to add these subparsers dynamically?  For example, > you would want to be able to load a module immediately after parsing the > name instead of having to keep a predetermined list of all module names. > I'm pretty sure that bzr dynamically loads modules this way.  Can > argparse help with this? You can probably already do this. I'm not 100% sure what you want to do, but it's certainly possible to define an argparse.Action that loads a module when it's invoked. It might look something like:: class MyAction(argparse.Action): def call(self, parser, namespace, value, optionstring=None): mod = import(value) # or whatever

This looks much easier than what I was able to do in optparse. Cool.

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