Re: [IBMiOSS] beginning python

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 12:07 PM Jim Steil <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I threw together a little example of how I'd handle the argument parsing
using click. See the notes at the bottom of the script...

-Jim

https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/master/
https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

The above is the entirety of your post (sans bottom-quoting the entire
thread up to that point). It seems you forgot to include a link to
your example script.

Can we infer from your links that your script not only uses `click`
but also `dateutil`? ;)

Mike, at your current stage of familiarity with Python, I would
recommend continuing to focus on the core language and on only those
packages which you need for your immediate task (as far as I'm aware,
that would consist of an Excel workbook writer and a database
connector). There is nothing wrong with how you are grabbing the
command-line arguments (by using `sys.argv` directly), so you can
definitely hold off on learning/using `argparse` and `click`
(mentioned by Jack and Jim, respectively). Those certainly can be
useful, but I think they'd just be distractions for now.

John Y.
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