python calling a module that uses argparser

Question

This is probably a silly question, but I have a python script that current takes in a bunch of arguements using argparser and I would like to load this script as a module in ano

Answer 1

There may be a simpler and more pythonic way to do this, but here is one possibility using the subprocess module:

Example:

child_script.py

import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("-n", "--name", help="your name")
args = parser.parse_args()

print("hello there {}").format(args.name)

Then another Python script can call that script like so:

calling_script.py:

import subprocess

# using Popen may suit better here depending on how you want to deal
# with the output of the child_script.
subprocess.call(["python", "child_script.py", "-n", "Donny"])

Executing the above script would give the following output:

"hello there Donny"