Comma separated inputs instead of space separated inputs for argparse

Question

I\'m using argparse to receive inputs from the command line to run my script.

My current input string looks like this:

path> python &         


        

Answer 1

You can use module shlex to extract the parameters, then replace commas with spaces, and pass the results to argparse for further processing:

comma_args = shlex.split("-t T1,T2,T3 -f F1,F2")
# ['-t', 'T1,T2,T3', '-f', 'F1,F2']
args = [x.replace(","," ") for x in comma_args]
# ['-t', 'T1 T2 T3', '-f', 'F1 F2']
parse_args(args)