How to check if a particular argument is supported in parser.parse_args()?

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For example, How can I know whether there is an argument like args.manual_selection in args (args = parser.parse_args())

Try this. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2521901/get-a-list-tuple-dict-of-the-arguments-passed-to-a-function — Dogukan Altay, Aug 11 '20 at 14:33

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 11 '20 at 14:33

One way to do it would be just to convert args to a dictionary

args = vars(parser.parse_args())

Then you can check for the existence of the key, e.g.

args.get("manual_selection", False)

If that returns False, the key does not exist. Of course the default returned for non-existence must not overlap with valid user input.

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