Hi Folks,
I am trying to build a program which takes the following command-line arguments:
-s <IP address> -D <start date> -n <no. of days> -t <start time> <end time>
the first argument which is -s (for source) can be replaced by -d (for destination) or -o (for observer) or -r (for reporter). Now what I want is to make sure that the user only supplies one of the options from the 4 alternatives.
I am using 'optparse' module. It has got a nice feature taht enables you to give the option name, along with the variable-name to store the value of that option. The syntax is as under:
from optparse import OptionParser
parser = OptionParser() # make an object of OptionParser
parser.add_option("-s", action="" type="string", dest="source_ip" ) # mapping argument to the value and storing it in souce_ip
My second question is about chekcing for None type. The issue is that optionParser sets the value = None for all the options that are not specified by the user. So suppose if the user doesnt specify -t, then time would be set to None. How to check the None type.
TIA.
Regards,
Asrarahmed
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