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Commit ca547bee authored by Martin Craig's avatar Martin Craig
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Add singlechar_args option to applyArgStyle for standard handling of single-char arguments

If specified, single-character arguments always take single dash prefix even if
argument style is --. This is a standard variation.
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......@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ generated command line arguments.
"""
def applyArgStyle(style, valsep=None, argmap=None, valmap=None, **kwargs):
def applyArgStyle(style, valsep=None, argmap=None, valmap=None, singlechar_args=False, **kwargs):
"""Turns the given ``kwargs`` into command line options. This function
is intended to be used to automatically generate command line options
from arguments passed into a Python function.
......@@ -240,6 +240,9 @@ def applyArgStyle(style, valsep=None, argmap=None, valmap=None, **kwargs):
The argument for any options not specified in the ``valmap``
will be converted into strings.
:arg singlechar_args: If True, single character arguments always take a single
hyphen prefix (e.g. -h) regardless of the style
:arg kwargs: Arguments to be converted into command-line options.
:returns: A list containing the generated command-line options.
......@@ -265,7 +268,7 @@ def applyArgStyle(style, valsep=None, argmap=None, valmap=None, **kwargs):
if valmap is None: valmap = {}
def fmtarg(arg):
if style in ('-', '-='): arg = '-{}'.format(arg)
if style in ('-', '-=') or (singlechar_args and len(arg) == 1): arg = '-{}'.format(arg)
elif style in ('--', '--='): arg = '--{}'.format(arg)
return arg
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