To read user input you can try the cmd module for easily creating a mini-command line interpreter (with help texts and autocompletion) and raw_input (input for Python 3+) for reading a line of …

I highly recommend argparse which comes with Python 2.7 and later.. The argparse module reduces boiler plate code and makes your code more robust, because the module handles all …

In one of my projects, I created a Command class which allows you to nest subcommands in a command tree easily. It uses optparse heavily to chain commands together. It's not something …

Apr 4, 2014 · You can use the sys module like this to pass command line arguments to your Python script. import sys name_of_script = sys.argv[0] position = sys.argv[1] sample = …

For interactive user input (or piped commands or redirected input) Use raw_input in Python 2.x, and input in Python 3. (These are built in, so you don't need to import anything to use them; …

inputQueue.put(input_str) def main(): EXIT_COMMAND = "exit" # Command to exit this program # The following threading lock is required only if you need to enforce atomic access to a chunk …

Sep 20, 2009 · If you want to prompt the user for input, you can use raw_input in Python 2.X, and just input in Python 3. If you actually just want to read command-line options, you can access …

I'm trying to create a simple script that will will ask a question to which the user will input an answer (Or a prompt with selectable answers could appear?), and the program would output a …

The inner while loop loops until the input is either 'y' or 'n'. If the input is 'y', the outer while loop starts again (continue keyword skips the remaining code and goes straight to the next …

Dec 8, 2013 · In Python 3.x, raw_input was renamed to input and the Python 2.x input was removed. This means that, just like raw_input , input in Python 3.x always returns a string …