Action
- Action(option_strings, dest, nargs=None, const=None, default=None, type=None, choices=None, required=False, help=None, metavar=None)
Information about how to convert command line strings to Python objects.
Action objects are used by an ArgumentParser to represent the information
needed to parse a single argument from one or more strings from the
command line. The keyword arguments to the Action constructor are also
all attributes of Action instances.
Keyword Arguments:
- option_strings -- A list of command-line option strings which
should be associated with this action.
- dest -- The name of the attribute to hold the created object(s)
- nargs -- The number of command-line arguments that should be
consumed. By default, one argument will be consumed and a single
value will be produced. Other values include:
- N (an integer) consumes N arguments (and produces a list)
- '?' consumes zero or one arguments
- '*' consumes zero or more arguments (and produces a list)
- '+' consumes one or more arguments (and produces a list)
Note that the difference between the default and nargs=1 is that
with the default, a single value will be produced, while with
nargs=1, a list containing a single value will be produced.
- const -- The value to be produced if the option is specified and the
option uses an action that takes no values.
- default -- The value to be produced if the option is not specified.
- type -- A callable that accepts a single string argument, and
returns the converted value. The standard Python types str, int,
float, and complex are useful examples of such callables. If None,
str is used.
- choices -- A container of values that should be allowed. If not None,
after a command-line argument has been converted to the appropriate
type, an exception will be raised if it is not a member of this
collection.
- required -- True if the action must always be specified at the
command line. This is only meaningful for optional command-line
arguments.
- help -- The help string describing the argument.
- metavar -- The name to be used for the option's argument with the
help string. If None, the 'dest' value will be used as the name.© Python Software Foundation. PSF License Version 2 · Official docs ↗
Members of Action
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- __call__
- Call self as a function.
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- format_usage
- Action subclasses can define a format_usage() method that takes no argument and return a string which will be used when printing the usage of the program.
1 Example
>>> class FooAction(argparse.Action): ... def __init__(self, option_strings, dest, nargs=None, **kwargs): ... if nargs is not None: ... raise ValueError("nargs not allowed") ... super().__init__(option_strings, dest, **kwargs) ... def __call__(self, parser, namespace, values, option_string=None): ... print('%r %r %r' % (namespace, values, option_string)) ... setattr(namespace, self.dest, values) ... >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> parser.add_argument('--foo', action=FooAction) >>> parser.add_argument('bar', action=FooAction) >>> args = parser.parse_args('1 --foo 2'.split()) Namespace(bar=None, foo=None) '1' None Namespace(bar='1', foo=None) '2' '--foo' >>> args Namespace(bar='1', foo='2')
from the Python docs