On 2009-09-28 10:37 AM, Steven Bethard wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Michael Foord
<fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
m h wrote:
Perhaps this is OT, but since command line parsing is part of
configuration, I figure I'd throw it out there. My scripts often have
configuration that the command line can override and I loosely follow
the example hierarchy[0] listed in The Art of Unix Programming.
Some configuration I want in a config file (but I want to override
from the command line) and sometimes it's very nice to use environment
variables for configuration. So I do something like this:
Integration with command line options is an occasionally-requested feature
for ConfigObj. I've always said I would be open to patches...
In other words, yes I think there is demand for it. Whether it belongs
*immediately* in the standard library is another matter, but if you wrote a
layer that unified ConfigParser and argparse I think you will find that
people use it.
It is well outside the realm of this PEP however.
What Michael said. ;-) If you'd like to provide a patch for argparse
that provides such functionality, I'd be happy to review it.
cfgparse appears to fill this role for optparse. It might be straightforward to
port it to argparse.
http://cfgparse.sourceforge.net/
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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