ArgumentParser.register
- ArgumentParser.register(registry_name, value, object)
Sometimes it’s desirable to use a custom string in error messages to provide more user-friendly output. In these cases, register() can be used to register custom actions or types with a parser and allow you to reference the type by their registered name instead of their callable name.
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1 Example
>>> import argparse >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> parser.register('type', 'hexadecimal integer', lambda s: int(s, 16)) >>> parser.add_argument('--foo', type='hexadecimal integer') _StoreAction(option_strings=['--foo'], dest='foo', nargs=None, const=None, default=None, type='hexadecimal integer', choices=None, required=False, help=None, metavar=None, deprecated=False) >>> parser.parse_args(['--foo', '0xFA']) Namespace(foo=250) >>> parser.parse_args(['--foo', '1.2']) usage: PROG [-h] [--foo FOO] PROG: error: argument --foo: invalid 'hexadecimal integer' value: '1.2'
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