Using argparse to parse arguments of form “arg= val”

Question

I want to use argparse to parse command lines of form \"arg=val\" For example, the usage would be:

script.py conf_dir=/tmp/good_conf

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Answer 1

The usual way to put name value pairs on the command line is with options. I.e. you would use

python script.py --confdir=/tmp/good_conf

argparse can certainly handle that case. See the docs at:

http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html#option-value-syntax