Module argkwargparser

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Automatically parse command line args and kwargs.

This module is meant to facilitate the translation of command line arguments to Python code to parse to methods.

Example usage:

Given an example minimalistic Python module 'example.py'

>>> def testfunc(a,b,calc='sum'):
>>> ... if calc=='sum': return a+b
>>> ... elif calc=='prod': return a*b
>>> ... return None

>>> if __name__=="__main__":
>>> ... method,args,kwargs = argkwargparser.parse()
>>> ... output = globals()[method](*args,**kwargs)

Then, in a terminal, you can do:

   $:> python example.py testfunc 3 4
   7
   $:> python example.py testfunc 3 4 calc=prod
   12

You can mix args and kwargs, they will be sorted by parse. You can give lists and more sophisticated input for args and kwargs, see parse.