https://github.com/cortesi/mitmproxy/issues/76

Sub-script options

#gist syntax highlighting is somewhat broken atm. Apologies.

import argparse, sys, shlex
 
print "sys.argv:\n",sys.argv,"\n"
 
main_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
main_parser.add_argument('-script')
 
main_args = main_parser.parse_args()
print "Main Args:\n", main_args,"\n"
 
script_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
script_parser.add_argument('-foo')
 
script_args = script_parser.parse_args(shlex.split(main_args.script)[1:])
print "Script Args:\n",script_args,"\n"
 
"""
Output: 
C:\Users\user\Desktop>foo.py -script "file.py -foo \"bar\""
['C:\\Users\\user\\Desktop\\foo.py', '-script', 'file.py -foo "bar"']
Main Args:
 
Namespace(script='file.py -foo "bar"')
Script Args:
Namespace(foo='bar')
 
C:\Users\user\Desktop>foo.py -script "file.py -foo \"bar\""
sys.argv:
['C:\\Users\\user\\Desktop\\foo.py', '-script', 'file.py -foo "bar"']
 
Main Args:
Namespace(script='file.py -foo "bar"')
 
Script Args:
Namespace(foo='bar')
"""