Maintaining python kwargs both short and long keywords (maya flag)

[David Lantos]

Hi guy!

I am just wondering have you guys a good solution/method to maintain python kwargs both short and long keywords with the same value.

(I have a couple of ideas just I am courius someone has better one.)

For example:

There is a method that eats one keyword at time (for example: "longFlag" or "shortFlag"). It can accept a short and long keyword as well and we want to provide a preset for this keyword if user do not use either of them.

Here is the frame:

def mayaCommandWrapper(**kwargs):
	"""
	:keyword longFlag(shortFlag): This is a keyword flag can accept any value.
	"""
	preset = {} # Some dictionary preset here
	
	# Some solution here to provide long and short flags as well.
	
	preset.update(kwargs) # we want to overwrite preset with value if given any kind of flag.
	mayaCommand(**preset) # we give the dict to the maya command as kwargs.

[Jesse Kretschmer]

You could perhaps use tuples as the key for your 'preset' dictionary. This will not allow for a simple .update(), but it's not complicated.

Consider this:

def mayaCommandWrapper(**kwargs):
    preset = {
        ('selection', 'sl'): True,
        ('dagObjects', 'dag'): True,
    }

    for key, value in preset.items():
        long_flag, short_flag = key
        if long_flag not in kwargs and short_flag not in kwargs:
            kwargs[long_flag] = value

    maya.cmds.ls(**kwargs)

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[damon shelton]

longname= kwargs.get('longname', kwargs.get('ln'))

othervalue= kwargs.get('othervalue', kwargs.get('ov'))

is how I handle it

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[David Lantos]

Thank you guys!