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Is it better practice to set default values for optional argparse arguments?
I mention python's argparse as an example but this would apply to any CLI argument parser library for any language. Just generally speaking, at a high level, if there are a lot of optional arguments ...
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Should a CLI wrapper specify function defaults?
In my code let's say I have a function which does most of the work:
def compute(x=3, y=5):
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And I have a CLI wrapper program using argparse. I intend end users to use the CLI program and not ...
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How much argument-parsing logic to test?
I have a program which may accept several dozen arguments. I am questioning whether there is value in testing every possible argument.
(In the examples, I don't have the exact syntax for pytest ...
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Multiple arguments for last parameter
I have function that has three parameters, called key, value and attribute.
Parameter attribute may be empty or have within two arguments. Code of function below is shortened (deprived of arguments ...
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Preferred way to expand a command line script to be used as a library in Python
I have a useful Python script that I've been invoking from the command line. It has decent number of options, maybe 20, and it's not unusual to run the script with six or seven flags. Then the rest of ...
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Repeating groups of arguments with argparse
Let's say that I want to enter info about multiple users from the command line AND that each user has multiple data associated with it.
Is it possible (syntactically permissible) to use argparse to ...
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