I'm writing a little python script to get stats from several servers or a single server, and I'm using OptionParser to parse the command line input.
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
from optparse import OptionParser
...
parser.add_option("-s", "--server", dest="server", metavar="SERVER", type="string",
help="server(s) to gather stats [default: localhost]")
...
my GOAL is to be able to do something like
#test.py -s server1 -s server2
and it would append both of those values within the options.server object in some way so that I could iterate through them, whether they have 1 value or 10.
Any thoughts / help is appreciated. Thanks.
import optparse
parser = optparse.OptionParser()
parser.add_option('-t', '--test', action='append')
options, args = parser.parse_args()
for i, opt in enumerate(options.test):
print 'option %s: %s' % (i, opt)
Yes, it can be done with optparse.
This is an example:
./test.py --categories=aaa --categories=bbb --categories ccc arg1 arg2 arg3
which prints:
arguments: ['arg1', 'arg2', 'arg3']
options: {'categories': ['aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc']}
Full working example below:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os, sys
from optparse import OptionParser
from optparse import Option, OptionValueError
VERSION = '0.9.4'
class MultipleOption(Option):
ACTIONS = Option.ACTIONS + ("extend",)
STORE_ACTIONS = Option.STORE_ACTIONS + ("extend",)
TYPED_ACTIONS = Option.TYPED_ACTIONS + ("extend",)
ALWAYS_TYPED_ACTIONS = Option.ALWAYS_TYPED_ACTIONS + ("extend",)
def take_action(self, action, dest, opt, value, values, parser):
if action == "extend":
values.ensure_value(dest, []).append(value)
else:
Option.take_action(self, action, dest, opt, value, values, parser)
def main():
PROG = os.path.basename(os.path.splitext(__file__)[0])
long_commands = ('categories')
short_commands = {'cat':'categories'}
description = """Just a test"""
parser = OptionParser(option_class=MultipleOption,
usage='usage: %prog [OPTIONS] COMMAND [BLOG_FILE]',
version='%s %s' % (PROG, VERSION),
description=description)
parser.add_option('-c', '--categories',
action="extend", type="string",
dest='categories',
metavar='CATEGORIES',
help='comma separated list of post categories')
if len(sys.argv) == 1:
parser.parse_args(['--help'])
OPTIONS, args = parser.parse_args()
print "arguments:", args
print "options:", OPTIONS
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
More information at http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html#adding-new-actions
You could try to check out argparse. It provides "nargs" parameter meaning you would be able to do something along
#test.py -s server1 server2
I know that's not exactly what requested but it might be a decent compromise without too much hassle. :)
Could be easier to accept a comma-separated list of servers:
# test.py -s server1,server2
and split the value within your script.
Here is a known working example (from http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html):
parser.add_option('-r', '--recipient',
type='string', action='append', metavar='RECIPIENT',
default=[], dest='recipients',
help='A To: header value (at least one required)')
I think the usages is something like:
python script.py -r some@where.com -r no@where.com -r any@where.com