On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Andrew McNabb <amcn...@mcnabbs.org> wrote: > >From my cursory reading of the documentation, it looks like argparse can > only add subparsers for subcommands. Is there any way to add subparsers > based on options instead (as iptables does)?
Currently this is not supported, but it would be a nice feature. > Also, is it possible to add these subparsers dynamically? For example, > you would want to be able to load a module immediately after parsing the > name instead of having to keep a predetermined list of all module names. > I'm pretty sure that bzr dynamically loads modules this way. Can > argparse help with this? You can probably already do this. I'm not 100% sure what you want to do, but it's certainly possible to define an argparse.Action that loads a module when it's invoked. It might look something like:: class MyAction(argparse.Action): def __call__(self, parser, namespace, value, option_string=None): mod = __import__(value) # or whatever Steve -- Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that? --- The Hiphopopotamus _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com