That actually works great for me. Thanks. On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Francisco José Marques Vieira <francisco.j.m.vie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. There might be a better way, but one way to do it would be to use a > default value for the argument as None and warn the user if the value is > still None inside your code. > Something like this: > > @task > def myTask(itsargument=None): > """ blah """ > if itsargument == None: > usage() > sys.exit(1) > ... > > Francisco Vieira > > > On 12/21/2012 07:52 PM, Charles Gagnon wrote: >> >> Sorry if this is obvious but I'm very novice at Python and Fabric. >> I've researched tghe documentation I could find but could find >> anything for this particular case. I have a simple fabfile which >> includes a task requiring an argument: >> >> @task >> def myTask(itsargument): >> """ blah """ >> ... >> >> It runs fine if I do: >> >> fab -H host fabfile.myTask:itsargument=value >> >> It works as I want it to. But if I omit the argument, I get a >> TypeError exception: >> >> TypeError: myTask() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given) >> >> Which I would like to catch and output usage(). So far, I have not >> been able to do so. >> >> -- >> Charles Gagnon >> charlesg at unixrealm.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fab-user mailing list >> Fab-user@nongnu.org >> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fab-user >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Fab-user mailing list > Fab-user@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fab-user
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