Re: [Tutor] Optparse question: if only certain values are acceptable

2009-05-09 Thread Kent Johnson
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Terry Carroll wrote: > It's exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks very much. > > Now I'm going to have to re-read the docs and see why I couldn't pick that > up from them. You have to read pretty far down, to the sections on Option attributes and Standard Optio

Re: [Tutor] Optparse question: if only certain values are acceptable

2009-05-09 Thread Alan Gauld
"Terry Carroll" wrote The toy summary is that I want to have the following command format: prognam -f FORMAT Where FORMAT, if specified, must be one of "X", "Y", or "Z". In otherwords, if the user enters: progname -f X It runs, producing its output in format X. Similar if "Y" or "Z" is

Re: [Tutor] Optparse question: if only certain values are acceptable

2009-05-08 Thread Terry Carroll
On Sat, 9 May 2009, Sander Sweers wrote: > Is the below what you are looking for? It's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks very much. Now I'm going to have to re-read the docs and see why I couldn't pick that up from them. ___ Tutor maillist -

Re: [Tutor] Optparse question: if only certain values are acceptable

2009-05-08 Thread Sander Sweers
2009/5/9 Terry Carroll : > In otherwords, if the user enters: > >  progname -f X > > It runs, producing its output in format X.  Similar if "Y" or "Z" is > specified instead of "X". > > But if the user specifies > >  progname -f A > > I want it to spit up because A is not a recognized format. Is t

[Tutor] Optparse question: if only certain values are acceptable

2009-05-08 Thread Terry Carroll
I'm tryng to use optparse for the first time. The toy summary is that I want to have the following command format: prognam -f FORMAT Where FORMAT, if specified, must be one of "X", "Y", or "Z". In otherwords, if the user enters: progname -f X It runs, producing its output in format X. Sim