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  • Committer: Tim Marston
  • Date: 2014-09-09 19:13:33 UTC
  • Revision ID: tim@ed.am-20140909191333-0b7hrzonxce8mgy3
attempt to allow arguments before main command by treating the first thing that
doesn't look like an option as the command

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lib/stdhome/program.py
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        def run( self ):
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                # make an initial attempt to parse the command line, looking only for
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                # --help, --version and --verbose, so that they have the chance to run
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                # without a command being specified
 
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                # --help and --version, so that they have the chance to run without a
 
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                # command being specified
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                try:
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                        opts, args = getopt.gnu_getopt(
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                                sys.argv[ 1: ], "v",
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                                [ "verbose", "help", "version" ] )
 
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                                sys.argv[ 1: ], "",
 
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                                [ "help", "version" ] )
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                        for opt, optarg in opts:
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                                # we only show help if there are no non-option arguments (e.g.,
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                                # a command) specified.  If a command has been specified it will
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                                # have to be parsed and --help will be handled by it, instead)
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                                if opt in [ '--verbose', '-v' ]:
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                                        the.verbose += 1
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                                elif opt == "--help" and len( args ) == 0:
 
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                                if opt == "--help" and len( args ) == 0:
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                                        self.print_help()
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                                elif opt == "--version":
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                                        self.print_version()