Changelog

This is a detailed rendering of what changed in each version.

v1.4.2

• Create custom exceptions. This makes it easier to include ezflags in error handlers.
• Add str() and repr() functionality to _ParsedObj. This makes it easier to see what flags are present and their values.

v1.4.1

• Move FlagParserExtended to a new location, ezflags.ext
• Bring back logging

v1.4.0

• This update is a complete rewrite of the module.
• It moves away from using argparse and instead parses flags “in-house”.
• The new class saves a lot of memory because it now only contains the logic for boolean flags.
• The argparse-like parser is still available through the FlagParserExtended class. (This may be moved to another location, so the import will be different.)
• The new parser class is still incomplete and may be buggy. Features will be brought back in the next series of incremental updates.

v1.3.3

• Add debug mode. This prints various messages about what the parser is currently doing. You can specify the file it writes to like this:

file = open("somefile.txt", "w")
parser = ezflags.FlagParser(debug=True, debug_file=file)

v1.3.2

• Change parser.flags to a dictionary with the flag names (and short versions, if applicable) corresponding to their value.
• Fix bug where an error was raised when providing only one flag name

v1.3.1

• Add parser.flags_short, which contains the short versions of each flag. Each index in flags_short corresponds to its longer counterpart in parser.flags.

v1.3.0

• You can now see a list of all the flags in the parser using parser.flags
• Performance improvements

v1.2.1

• Add a kwarg to specify whether the flag is required or not
• Limit to two flag names
• Improved type checking
• Take info from README and add it to index of documentation

v1.2.0

• Rename kwarg action to value
• Allow use of lists of flags in parse_flags(). Defaults to sys.argv[1:]

v1.1.4

• Create documentation

v1.1.3

• Add advanced functionality

v1.1.1

• Initial release