Alexander Daychilde (Gmail) wrote:
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class TestObject:
def __init__(self):
# options and arguments from commandline-->OptionParser
self.opt = ""
here, self.opt is initialized as a string...
self.args = []
def load_cfg(self):
# read+parse commandlnie
self._parse_commandline()
def load_ini(self):
##### I'm trying to get at 'inifile' from the commandline... #####
print self.opt['inifile']
... and here you're accessing it as a dict
def _parse_commandline(self):
parser = OptionParser()
parser.add_option("-i", dest = "inifile", help = "specify an ini
file to load")
(self.opt, self.args) = parser.parse_args()
... and here it's changed to whatever is returned by parser.parse_args
if __name__ == '__main__':
# parses command-line argumenmts
from optparse import OptionParser
test = TestObject()
... so when __init__ has complete, test.opt will be a string
test.load_cfg()
... and after this it's whatever is returned by parser.parse_args
try print test.opt to see what was returned -- that'll probably help
clear things up. If it's really a list type, you don't access those
with keys, so self.opt['inifile'] would fail.
test.load_ini()
HTH,
Emile
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