I am trying to get Argparse exec should load the variables user_token and channel_id from the config.py file inputted by the user (–config-file argparse argument). For whatever reason it will only load the main config file (from config import *) even when running the proper commands to load in another one besides the main: python3… Read More Get argparse exec to properly load variables from python config file

I have a decorator that is supposed to use a parameter that’s passed in from the commandline e.g @deco(name) def handle(self, *_args, **options): name = options["name"] def deco(name): // The name should come from commandline pass class Command(BaseCommand): def add_arguments(self, parser): parser.add_argument( "–name", type=str, required=True, ) @deco(//How can I pass the name here?) def handle(self,… Read More Is it possible to pass command line arguments to a decorator in Django?

I wish to use the argparse module to set the value of a server URL. As well as being set via an argument, the vale can also be in an environment variable, though the argument should always take precedence. To achieve this, I’ve added an argument to the parser with the environment variable value as… Read More Parse arguments to get an argument value, or environment variable value, and raise exception if neither

I’ve done my research but still couldn’t find a way to be able to run a python with a random string as an argument and without any arguments at the same time.(without –) import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Argument list") parser.add_argument(‘string’, type=str, help=’String for additional info’) args = parser.parse_args() if args.string : print("You passed an argument")… Read More Argument for argparse always needed, I want to make it optional(without –)

So I am using argparse and have an argument called async. The following code works in Python 2 but not in Python 3.8 and newer import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument("–async", action=’store_true’) ARG = parser.parse_args() if ARG.async: print("Async") Unfortunatelly async seems to be a new keyword and there is SyntaxError on the line with if… Read More Argument with the name async

I want to parse a JSON string given as an argument to the argparse module of a python script. The contents of the JSON string are defined in a bash file, which calls the python script. How should I escape the JSON string, so that it is properly parsed? So far, executing the bash script… Read More How to parse JSON strings with argparse when executing the script with bash?

I am using argparse to require input from the user for a hardware id to then be called later on, I cannot work out how to get it so the user types <command> –id <id> Please help me see where I’m going wrong! Thanks parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=’Return a list of useful information after specifying a… Read More Store argparse input to use as variable

I have what I think is a trivial issue, but was not able to find the reply. I have a very simple argparse script: import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument(‘–in’, help=’Input folder’, default=’../../in’) parser.add_argument(‘–out’, help=’Output folder’, default=’../../out’) args = parser.parse_args() print(f’From {args.in} to {args.out}’) This results in an error: File "[…]\__main__.py", line 16 (args.in) ^^… Read More Argparse and "in" option

This is my first attempt at writing something with argparse and I am really lost. The goal of this script is to read file.sdf, then write it back out as file2.sdf This is my script: import argparse import rdkit as rdkit from rdkit.Chem import PandasTools import pandas as pd parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=’This is a work… Read More Why is argparse not recognizing my input file?

I have a setup like this. What I want to do is to send a constant value if only the -e/–exp are sent, and if -p/–plot are sent then it should only do the plotting. So a default value will not work, as it then will print ‘do everything’. def run(args): if args.exp: if ‘p’… Read More Set constant for arg parse when using nargs '*'