How to make a Django custom management command argument not required?

Question

I am trying to write a custom management command in django like below-

class Command(BaseCommand):

    def add_arguments(self, parser):
        parser.add_argum         


        

Answer 1

One of the recipes from the documentation suggests:

For positional arguments with nargs equal to ? or *, the default value is used when no command-line argument was present.

So following should do the trick (it will return value if provided or default value otherwise):

parser.add_argument('delay', type=int, nargs='?', default=21)

Usage:

$ ./manage.py mycommand
21
$ ./manage.py mycommand 4
4