I'm trying to pass a list of arguments to a python script using the argh library. Something that can take inputs like these:
./my_script.py my-func --argA blah --argB 1 2 3 4
./my_script.py my-func --argA blah --argB 1
./my_script.py my-func --argA blah --argB
My internal code looks like this:
import argh
@argh.arg('--argA', default="bleh", help='My first arg')
@argh.arg('--argB', default=[], help='A list-type arg--except it\'s not!')
def my_func(args):
"A function that does something"
print args.argA
print args.argB
for b in args.argB:
print int(b)*int(b) #Print the square of each number in the list
print sum([int(b) for b in args.argB]) #Print the sum of the list
p = argh.ArghParser()
p.add_commands([my_func])
p.dispatch()
And here's how it behaves:
$ python temp.py my-func --argA blooh --argB 1
blooh
['1']
1
1
$ python temp.py my-func --argA blooh --argB 10
blooh
['1', '0']
1
0
1
$ python temp.py my-func --argA blooh --argB 1 2 3
usage: temp.py [-h] {my-func} ...
temp.py: error: unrecognized arguments: 2 3
The problem seems pretty straightforward: argh is only accepting the first argument, and treating it as a string. How do I make it "expect" a list of integers instead?
I see how this is done in optparse, but what about the (not-deprecated) argparse? Or using argh's much nicer decorated syntax? These seem much more pythonic.