quick confirm script to pipe in a terminal

confirm.py

#!/bin/env python
import sys
import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument(
    "-l",
    "--level",
    choices=("e", "m", "h"),
    default="m",
    help="confirmation difficulty: e(asy), m(edium), h(ard)",
)
args = parser.parse_args()

match args.level:
    case "e":
        expected_confirmation = "[y/N]", "y"
    case "m":
        expected_confirmation = """["I confirm"]""", "I confirm"
    case "h":
        from datetime import date
        today = date.today().isoformat()
        expected_confirmation = f"[{today}]", today
    case _:
        raise ValueError(f"Unhandled confirmation difficuly {args.level}")


res = input(f"Confirm? {expected_confirmation[0]} ")

sys.exit(0 if res.strip() == expected_confirmation[1] else 1)