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nestargs is a Python library that treats command line arguments as a hierarchical structure. The functionality for interpreting command line arguments is the same as argparse.
pip install nestargs
When defining command line arguments, use "." as the delimiter. to represent a variable hierarchy. The following code example defines an n
and price
variable in the apple
hierarchy and another separate n
and price
variable in the banana
hierarchy.
import nestargs
parser = nestargs.NestedArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--apple.n", type=int)
parser.add_argument("--apple.price", type=float)
parser.add_argument("--banana.n", type=int)
parser.add_argument("--banana.price", type=float)
args = parser.parse_args(
["--apple.n=2", "--apple.price=1.5", "--banana.n=3", "--banana.price=3.5"]
)
# => _NestedNamespace(apple=_NestedNamespace(n=2, price=1.5), banana=_NestedNamespace(n=3, price=3.5))
Variables obtained by parsing command line arguments can be referenced by hierarchy.
args.apple
# => _NestedNamespace(n=2, price=1.5)
Of course, you can also refer directly to variables lower down in the hierarchy.
args.apple.price
# => 1.5
When referring to each level of hierarchy, you can use vars
to create a dictionary format.
vars(args.apple)
# => {'n': 2, 'price': 1.5}
The default namespace delimiter is "." but can be any other character. In that case, specify the delimiter in the NestedArgumentParser
constructor argument.
import nestargs
parser = nestargs.NestedArgumentParser(delimiter="/")
parser.add_argument("--apple/n", type=int)
args = parser.parse_args(["--apple/n=1"])
# => _NestedNamespace(apple=_NestedNamespace(n=1))
However, references to variables must be separated by "." delimiter when referring to variables.
args.apple.n
# => 1
FAQs
Nested arguments parser
We found that nestargs demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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