equals sign in Python's argument

arguments, python, python-2.7, syntax

Solution

Use `parser.add_argument("--temp", ...)`

There are great examples in the argparser manual:

http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/argparse.html

Edit:

For arguments starting with `-` only the pattern `-argument VALUE` works. This works also for arguments starting with `--`, but here you can also use the pattern `--argument=VALUE`.

Problem

I'd like to put be able launch python's scripts from the shell command line in a following manner: ``` python script_name -temp=value1 -press=value2 ``` I wrote sth like that: ``` #!/usr/bin/python import sys import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument("temp", help="specify the temperature [K]", type=float) parser.add_argument("press", help="specify the pressure [Pa]", type=float) args = parser.parse_args() temp = args.temp press = args.press print temp print press ``` And the imput can be: ``` python script_name value1 value2 ``` How to be able to enter the values in manner -arg=value ?

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