From e15cb61ddeb54bf4a5e6099520e5712c72ff15bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Svetlov Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:17:26 +0200 Subject: Issue #11076: document the way to convert argparse.Namespace to a dict. Initial patch by Virgil Dupras. --- Doc/library/argparse.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index 5273e9b..b10df39 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -1425,6 +1425,21 @@ be achieved by specifying the ``namespace=`` keyword argument:: 'BAR' +Converting the namespace to a dict +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +It's possible to convert a namespace to a :class:`dict` by using the built-in +function :func:`vars` in this fashion:: + + args = parser.parse_args() + argdict = vars(args) + +This makes it easy to introspect the namespace or to pass the command-line +arguments to a function taking a bunch of keyword arguments:: + + somefunction(**vars(parser.parse_args())) + + Other utilities --------------- -- cgit v0.12