minopt

A minimalistic option parser for Python inspired by substack's minimist for node.js.

API

minopt(argv[, opts])

This function takes a list of strings and parses them as if they were sys.argv.

Example:

# example.py

import sys
from minopt import minopt

argv = minopt(sys.argv[1:])
print argv

$ python example.py --foo bar -raz --quux=riff hello --flag -f
{'a': True, 'z': True, 'f': True, 'quux': 'riff', 'flag': True, 'r': True, 'foo': 'bar', '_': ['hello']}

This function returns a dictionary that maps named arguments to their string values (or True, in the case of flags). It maps _ to a list of unnamed arguments.

argv is a list of strings to be parsed as a list of arguments. opts is an optional argument and a dictionary with the following keys:

• string: a list of arguments to always be treated as strings
• boolean: a list of arguments to always be treated as flags

Installation

$ python setup.py install

or

$ easy_install minopt

Running tests

You'll need pyvows.

$ pyvows

License

MIT License. See ./LICENSE for details.