[giwrgosev]

Hey there,I'm new to programming. I'm working on this project and I want to add to it slash commands (e.g /help /show etc.).Any ideas on how to do it?Any help would be very appreciated.

[Meedman]

Look about raw_input() function I hope it will help you :)

[giwrgosev]

Look about raw_input() function I hope it will help you :)

I'll check it out later bud.Thanks for helping me.

[Goodies]

There's surprisingly no great utility for this. The go-to most people use is the "cmd" package. It's simple and it's built into the standard library. But it's not super intuitive or particularly well-documented. There are better tutorials on blogs and stuff than there are on the docs.python.org page.

[Infamia]

well there's either an object-oriented way to pursue it where you view everything like a parser and lexer would, parse it initially, tokenize it, separate operands, determine types, detect strings, etc.; a more than-usual advanced parser, but worth it in the end.

i have some code-based resources (which probably aren't useful if you're at the degree of python i assume you are), but good luck:

parsing strings
parsing general tokens
parsing octal/hex/denary-based integers

[StreetSquirrel]

I think I have an idea what you mean, check this out and tell me if it's what you were going for.

Code

# User input asking for a command
user = input('type in command > ')

#example of a help menu
help_menu = '''
example
help
menu

'''

#if the user types in /help then print out the help menu
if user == "/help":
print (help_menu)

I think this is what you're trying to do? Let me know if I'm mistaken

[dv989]

argparse might help -- you can add something such as...

test.py -arg1 value -arg2 value

etc

[giwrgosev]

There's surprisingly no great utility for this. The go-to most people use is the "cmd" package. It's simple and it's built into the standard library. But it's not super intuitive or particularly well-documented. There are better tutorials on blogs and stuff than there are on the docs.python.org page.

thanks for your feedback bud.Will consider this.

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well there's either an object-oriented way to pursue it where you view everything like a parser and lexer would, parse it initially, tokenize it, separate operands, determine types, detect strings, etc.; a more than-usual advanced parser, but worth it in the end.

i have some code-based resources (which probably aren't useful if you're at the degree of python i assume you are), but good luck:

parsing strings
parsing general tokens
parsing octal/hex/denary-based integers

thanks for your help.I believe argparse is what I waas looking for.

[dontspamthisplease]

argparse might help -- you can add something such as...

test.py -arg1 value -arg2 value

etc

Thank you mate, I almost lost all hope after reading someone say "there is no nice way" or something like that lmao

This is python, almost everything has a built-in way

User argparse and sys libs, get the args from sys.argv

[Keat]

If you are using python 2.x then cmd module is good. If you are on 3 then use cmd2.

I am actually in a huge project now that I am using cmd2 and argparser. It is very nice and works pretty dang good. If you run into any problems let me know.

[giwrgosev]

If you are using python 2.x then cmd module is good. If you are on 3 then use cmd2.

I am actually in a huge project now that I am using cmd2 and argparser. It is very nice and works pretty dang good. If you run into any problems let me know.

ofc buddy,thanks for your help.

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Thank you mate, I almost lost all hope after reading someone say "there is no nice way" or something like that lmao

This is python, almost everything has a built-in way

User argparse and sys libs, get the args from sys.argv

thats what i thought,thanks.