we can use getopt (http://docs.python.org/library/getopt.html)
instead of manual parsing if the number of options increases
in the future...
fp.close()
return retval
+def usage(execfile):
+ print "Usage: " + execfile + " <target mhx-file> [-d DEVICE]"
+
def main(argv=None):
# check command line arguments
if argv is None:
return 0
if len(argv) != 2 and len(argv) != 4:
- print "Usage: " + argv[0] + " <target mhx-file> [-d DEVICE]"
+ usage(argv[0])
return 1
# standard serial device to communicate with
DEVICE="/dev/ttyUSB0"
+
+ # overrule standard device if provided with -d
if len(argv) == 4:
- DEVICE = argv[3]
+ if argv[2] == "-d":
+ DEVICE = argv[3]
+ else:
+ usage(argv[0])
+ return 1
# read in data from mhx-files before starting
try: