i would like to get extra args using argparse but without known what are they. for example, in maven we can add parameters in the form: -Dmaven.test.skip=true or -Dcmd=compiler:compile
i would like to get the same thing in python using argparse, and get some kind of dict with all the args..
i know i can use:
aparser.parse_known_args()
but then i need to parse me extra args (remove the -D and split by =). Was wondering if there is something out of the box?
Thanks!
You can use
parser.add_argument('-D', action='append', default=[])
which will turn arguments
-Dfoo -Dbar=baz
into
>>> args.D ['foo', 'bar=baz']
And no -D arguments will mean that args.D will return an empty list.
If you want them as a dictionary right there, you can have a custom action:
def ensure_value(namespace, dest, default): stored = getattr(namespace, dest, None) if stored is None: return value return stored class store_dict(argparse.Action): def __call__(self, parser, namespace, values, option_string=None): vals = dict(ensure_value(namespace, self.dest, {})) k, _, v = values.partition('=') vals[k] = v setattr(namespace, self.dest, vals) parser.add_argument('-D', default={}, action=store_dict)
which, given -Dfoo -Dbar=baz will result in
>>> args.D {'bar': 'baz', 'foo': ''}
which is slightly more verbose than using the action='append' with
>>> as_dict = dict(i.partition('=')[::2] for i in args.D)