Rename python click argument
command-line-arguments, python, python-click
Solution
By default, click will intelligently map intra-option commandline hyphens to underscores so your code should work as-is. This is used in the click documentation, e.g., in the Choice example. If --delete-thing is intended to be a boolean option, you may also want to make it a boolean argument.
Problem
I have this chunk of code: ``` import click @click.option('--delete_thing', help="Delete some things columns.", default=False) def cmd_do_this(delete_thing=False): print "I deleted the thing." ``` I would like to rename the option variable in `--delete-thing`. But python does not allow dashes in variable names. Is there a way to write this kind of code? ``` import click @click.option('--delete-thing', help="Delete some things columns.", default=False, store_variable=delete_thing) def cmd_do_this(delete_thing=False): print "I deleted the thing." ``` So `delete_thing` will be set to the value of `delete-thing`