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Options That Conflict

Explore how to handle conflicting command-line options using Python's argparse module. Learn to create mutually exclusive groups, prevent invalid argument combinations, and improve your scripts' robustness.

What to do when options conflict?

What should we do if we have options that conflict with each other? A common example would be running our application in verbose mode versus quiet mode. We can run it in either mode, but not both. How do we prevent the user from running it that way though? It’s ...