# `getopt` --- C-style parser for command line options

Code source : Lib/getopt.py

Note

This module is considered feature complete. A more declarative and extensible alternative to this API is provided in the `optparse` module. Further functional enhancements for command line parameter processing are provided either as third party modules on PyPI, or else as features in the `argparse` module.

This module helps scripts to parse the command line arguments in `sys.argv`. It supports the same conventions as the Unix `getopt()` function (including the special meanings of arguments of the form '`-`' and '`--`'). Long options similar to those supported by GNU software may be used as well via an optional third argument.

Users who are unfamiliar with the Unix `getopt()` function should consider using the `argparse` module instead. Users who are familiar with the Unix `getopt()` function, but would like to get equivalent behavior while writing less code and getting better help and error messages should consider using the `optparse` module. See Choosing an argument parsing library for additional details.

Ce module fournit deux fonctions et une exception :

getopt.getopt(args, shortopts, longopts=[])

  Parses command line options and parameter list. args is the argument list to be parsed, without the leading reference to the running program. Typically, this means `sys.argv[1:]`. shortopts is the string of option letters that the script wants to recognize, with options that require an argument followed by a colon (`':'`) and options that accept an optional argument followed by two colons (`'::'`); i.e., the same format that Unix `getopt()` uses.

  Note

  Unlike GNU `getopt()`, after a non-option argument, all further arguments are considered also non-options. This is similar to the way non-GNU Unix systems work.

  longopts, if specified, must be a list of strings with the names of the long options which should be supported. The leading `'--'` characters should not be included in the option name. Long options which require an argument should be followed by an equal sign (`'='`). Long options which accept an optional argument should be followed by an equal sign and question mark (`'=?'`). To accept only long options, shortopts should be an empty string. Long options on the command line can be recognized so long as they provide a prefix of the option name that matches exactly one of the accepted options. For example, if longopts is `['foo', 'frob']`, the option `--fo` will match as `--foo`, but `--f` will not match uniquely, so `GetoptError` will be raised.

  La valeur de retour se compose de deux éléments : le premier est une liste de paires `(option, value)`, la deuxième est la liste des arguments de programme laissés après que la liste d’options est été dépouillée (il s’agit d’une tranche de fin de args). Chaque paire option-valeur retournée a l’option comme premier élément, préfixée avec un trait d'union pour les options courtes (par exemple, `'-x'`) ou deux tirets pour les options longues (par exemple, `'--long-option'`), et l’argument option comme deuxième élément, ou une chaîne vide si le option n’a aucun argument. Les options se trouvent dans la liste dans l’ordre dans lequel elles ont été trouvées, permettant ainsi plusieurs occurrences. Les options longues et courtes peuvent être mélangées.

  Modifié dans la version 3.14: Optional arguments are supported.

getopt.gnu_getopt(args, shortopts, longopts=[])

  Cette fonction fonctionne comme `getopt()`, sauf que le mode de scan GNU est utilisé par défaut. Cela signifie que les arguments option et non-option peuvent être intermixés. La fonction `getopt()` arrête le traitement des options dès qu’un argument de non-option est rencontré.

  If the first character of the option string is `'+'`, or if the environment variable `POSIXLY_CORRECT` is set, then option processing stops as soon as a non-option argument is encountered.

  If the first character of the option string is `'-'`, non-option arguments that are followed by options are added to the list of option-and-value pairs as a pair that has `None` as its first element and the list of non-option arguments as its second element. The second element of the `gnu_getopt()` result is a list of program arguments after the last option.

  Modifié dans la version 3.14: Support for returning intermixed options and non-option arguments in order.

exception getopt.GetoptError

  This is raised when an unrecognized option is found in the argument list or when an option requiring an argument is given none. The argument to the exception is a string indicating the cause of the error. For long options, an argument given to an option which does not require one will also cause this exception to be raised. The attributes `msg` and `opt` give the error message and related option; if there is no specific option to which the exception relates, `opt` is an empty string.

exception getopt.error

  Alias pour `GetoptError` ; pour la rétrocompatibilité.

Un exemple utilisant uniquement les options de style UNIX :

    >>> import getopt
    >>> args = '-a -b -cfoo -d bar a1 a2'.split()
    >>> args
    ['-a', '-b', '-cfoo', '-d', 'bar', 'a1', 'a2']
    >>> optlist, args = getopt.getopt(args, 'abc:d:')
    >>> optlist
    [('-a', ''), ('-b', ''), ('-c', 'foo'), ('-d', 'bar')]
    >>> args
    ['a1', 'a2']

L’utilisation de noms d’options longs est tout aussi simple :

    >>> s = '--condition=foo --testing --output-file abc.def -x a1 a2'
    >>> args = s.split()
    >>> args
    ['--condition=foo', '--testing', '--output-file', 'abc.def', '-x', 'a1', 'a2']
    >>> optlist, args = getopt.getopt(args, 'x', [
    ...     'condition=', 'output-file=', 'testing'])
    >>> optlist
    [('--condition', 'foo'), ('--testing', ''), ('--output-file', 'abc.def'), ('-x', '')]
    >>> args
    ['a1', 'a2']

Optional arguments should be specified explicitly:

    >>> s = '-Con -C --color=off --color a1 a2'
    >>> args = s.split()
    >>> args
    ['-Con', '-C', '--color=off', '--color', 'a1', 'a2']
    >>> optlist, args = getopt.getopt(args, 'C::', ['color=?'])
    >>> optlist
    [('-C', 'on'), ('-C', ''), ('--color', 'off'), ('--color', '')]
    >>> args
    ['a1', 'a2']

The order of options and non-option arguments can be preserved:

    >>> s = 'a1 -x a2 a3 a4 --long a5 a6'
    >>> args = s.split()
    >>> args
    ['a1', '-x', 'a2', 'a3', 'a4', '--long', 'a5', 'a6']
    >>> optlist, args = getopt.gnu_getopt(args, '-x:', ['long='])
    >>> optlist
    [(None, ['a1']), ('-x', 'a2'), (None, ['a3', 'a4']), ('--long', 'a5')]
    >>> args
    ['a6']

In a script, typical usage is something like this:

    import getopt, sys

    def main():
        try:
            opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "ho:v", ["help", "output="])
        except getopt.GetoptError as err:
            # print help information and exit:
            print(err)  # will print something like "option -a not recognized"
            usage()
            sys.exit(2)
        output = None
        verbose = False
        for o, a in opts:
            if o == "-v":
                verbose = True
            elif o in ("-h", "--help"):
                usage()
                sys.exit()
            elif o in ("-o", "--output"):
                output = a
            else:
                assert False, "unhandled option"
        process(args, output=output, verbose=verbose)

    if __name__ == "__main__":
        main()

Note that an equivalent command line interface could be produced with less code and more informative help and error messages by using the `optparse` module:

    import optparse

    if __name__ == '__main__':
        parser = optparse.OptionParser()
        parser.add_option('-o', '--output')
        parser.add_option('-v', dest='verbose', action='store_true')
        opts, args = parser.parse_args()
        process(args, output=opts.output, verbose=opts.verbose)

A roughly equivalent command line interface for this case can also be produced by using the `argparse` module:

    import argparse

    if __name__ == '__main__':
        parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
        parser.add_argument('-o', '--output')
        parser.add_argument('-v', dest='verbose', action='store_true')
        parser.add_argument('rest', nargs='*')
        args = parser.parse_args()
        process(args.rest, output=args.output, verbose=args.verbose)

See Choosing an argument parsing library for details on how the `argparse` version of this code differs in behaviour from the `optparse` (and `getopt`) version.

Voir aussi

Module `optparse`

  Declarative command line option parsing.

Module `argparse`

  More opinionated command line option and argument parsing library.