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martinth / argparse_fileinput_demo.py
Created August 6, 2015 11:04
Read from stdin or files in Python (combining argparse and fileinput)
import argpase
import fileinput
if __name__ == '__main__':
parser = ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--dummy', help='dummy argument')
parser.add_argument('files', metavar='FILE', nargs='*', help='files to read, if empty, stdin is used')
args = parser.parse_args()
# If you would call fileinput.input() without files it would try to process all arguments.