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Simple linux cli style user choice function
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def choose(text, options="Yn"): | |
""" | |
text: prompt to the user. | |
options: set of characters. one upper case may be | |
used to indicate a default value. | |
Examples: | |
answer = choose("Continue?") | |
# outputs: "Continue? (Y/n): " | |
answer = choose("The next operation will be destructive! Continue?", "yN") | |
if answer == 'n': | |
sys.exit(0) | |
""" | |
default = ''.join(char for char in options if char.isupper()) | |
default = default.strip().lower() | |
if len(default) > 1: | |
raise ValueError('Must not have more than 1 default option') | |
others = ''.join(char for char in options if char.islower()) | |
others = others.strip().lower() | |
while True: | |
opts = '/'.join(options) | |
result = input(f'{text} ({opts}): ') | |
result = result.strip().lower() | |
if not result and default: | |
return default | |
if result and result in others: | |
return result | |
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