Argparse"ArgumentError: argument -h/--help: conflicting option string(s): -h, --help"
Recently, I am learning argparse module, Argument error occurred below the code
import argparse
import sys
class ExecuteShell(object):
def create(self, args):
"""aaaaaaa"""
print('aaaaaaa')
return args
def list(self, args):
"""ccccccc"""
print('ccccccc')
return args
def delete(self, args):
"""ddddddd"""
print('ddddddd')
return args
class TestShell(object):
def get_base_parser(self):
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('-h',
'--help',
action='store_true',
help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
parser.add_argument('-c', action='store',
dest='create_value',
help='create a file')
parser.add_argument('-d', action='store',
dest='delete_value',
help='delete a file')
parser.add_argument('-l', action='store',
dest='list_value',
help='list a dir')
return parser
def _find_actions(self, subparsers, actions_module):
for attr in (action for action in dir(actions_module) if not action.startswith('__')):
callback = getattr(actions_module, attr)
desc = callback.__doc__ or ''
subparser = subparsers.add_parser(attr, description=desc)
subparser.add_argument('-h', '--help', action='help',
help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
self.subcommands[attr] = subparser
subparser.set_defaults(func=callback)
def main(self, args):
parser = self.get_base_parser()
(options, args) = parser.parse_known_args(args)
subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(metavar='<subcommand>')
a = ExecuteShell()
self.subcommands = {}
subcommand_parser = self._find_actions(subparsers, a)
if __name__ == "__main__":
a = TestShell()
a.main(sys.argv[1:])
Why do I get this error and how can I fix it?
argparse
adds --help
and -h
options by default. If you don't want to use the built-in help feature, you need to disable it with:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=False)
See the documentation
The same error pop-ups in 2 other scenarios:
1) Repeated code
parser.add_argument('-h',
'--help',
action='store_true',
help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
parser.add_argument('-h',
'--help',
action='store_true',
help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
2) When you execute the code multiple times on the same kernel
I'm leaving it just in case if someone had simillar problem.