Snippets using argparse

argparse_unique_elems.py

import argparse
# https://stackoverflow.com/a/9377686

class UniqueAppendAction(argparse.Action):
    def __call__(self, parser, namespace, values, option_string=None):
        unique_values = set(values)
        setattr(namespace, self.dest, unique_values)

servers = ["ApaServer", "BananServer", "GulServer", "SolServer",
           "RymdServer", "SkeppServer", "HavsServer", "SovServer" ]
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('-o', '--only', nargs='*', choices=servers, action=UniqueAppendAction,
                    help='Space separated list of case sensitive server names to process')
print parser.parse_args()