How to run a python script with a configuration file at command line?

[steph_awk]

I have been searching for quite some times without success.

I have a python script that needs to start from command line and it
should have a config file to fill out the detais (itis one program,
and many possible configurations).

something as simple as PHP would be nice %> ./PHPscript -c configfile

is there such a thing in Python?

 

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

optparse

is your friend.

-aj

2010/6/3 steph_awk <[email protected]
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I have been searching for quite some times without success.

I have a python script that needs to start from command line and it
should have a config file to fill out the detais (itis one program,
and many possible configurations).

something as simple as PHP would be nice %> ./PHPscript -c configfile

is there such a thing in Python?

http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html

JM

 

[steph_py]

http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html

JM

configparser is fine if you know the name of the config file, but my
scripts has many config files, I want to pass one by command line
instead of hard coding every possibilities. This may be run as a cron
job, which would automaticaly call up the proper config file depending
on the database...