I am trying to make a serial terminal app with two different functions. One function lists out available serial ports and the other function opens the specified serial port at the specified baud rate. What I am trying to attempt is be able to select between either listing the ports or opening a port, if the user selects opening a
Tag: command-line-arguments
Command line array argument into a python script
I would like to create a python script and parse a list of command-line arguments. Specifically, I would like to give it the following arguments and have it read them as an array. Something like this: where the input array is: and inside the script, I want to do a “for loop” and and assign the variables in this way:
Passing command line arguments to argv in jupyter/ipython notebook
I’m wondering if it’s possible to populate sys.argv (or some other structure) with command line arguments in a jupyter/ipython notebook, similar to how it’s done through a python script. For instance, if I were to run a python script as follows: python test.py False Then sys.argv would contain the argument False. But if I run a jupyter notebook in a
Passing IPython variables as arguments to bash commands
How do I execute a bash command from Ipython/Jupyter notebook passing the value of a python variable as an argument like in this example: (obviously I want to grep for foo and not the literal string py_var) Answer General solution As suggested by Catbuilts, use {..}: Its behaviour is more predictable than $… E.g. if you want to concatenate another
Parsing boolean values with argparse
I would like to use argparse to parse boolean command-line arguments written as “–foo True” or “–foo False”. For example: However, the following test code does not do what I would like: Sadly, parsed_args.my_bool evaluates to True. This is the case even when I change cmd_line to be [“–my_bool”, “”], which is surprising, since bool(“”) evalutates to False. How can