I am using the docopt library.
I couldn't find out the way to accomplish the following requirement:
The docstring is:
"""
aTXT tool
Usage:
aTXT <source>... [--ext <ext>...]
Options:
--ext message
"""
From the shell, I want to write something like this:
atxt a b c --ext e f g
The result dictionary from docopt output is the following:
{'--ext': True,
'<ext>': [],
'<source>': ['a', 'b', 'c', 'e', 'f']}
But, I need it to be the following:
{'--ext': True,
'<ext>': ['e', 'f', 'g'],
'<source>': ['a', 'b', 'c']}
How do I proceed?
I have not been able to find a way of passing a list directly into the Docopt argument dictionary. However, I have worked out a solution that has allowed me to pass a string into Docopt, then convert that string into a list.
There are issues with your Docopt __doc__ and I revised them so that I could test the solution specific to your case. This code was written in Python 3.4 .
In command line:
python3 gitHubTest.py a,b,c -e 'e,f,g'
In gitHubTest.py:
"""
aTXT tool
Usage:
aTXT.py [options] (<source>)
Options:
-e ext, --extension=ext message
"""
from docopt import docopt
def main(args) :
if args['--extension'] != None:
extensions = args['--extension'].rsplit(sep=',')
print (extensions)
if __name__ == '__main__':
args = docopt(__doc__, version='1.00')
print (args)
main(args)
It returns:
{
'--extension': 'e,f,g',
'<source>': 'a,b,c'
}
['e', 'f', 'g']
The variable extensions created in main() is now the list you were hoping to pass in.