DatasetArgument

class lsst.pipe.base.DatasetArgument(name=None, help='dataset type to process from input data repository', default=None)

Bases: object

Dataset type specified by a command-line argument.

Parameters:

name : str, optional

Name of command-line argument (including leading “–“, if appropriate) whose value is the dataset type. If None, uses --idName_dstype where idName is the name of the data ID argument (e.g. “id”).

help : str, optional

Help string for the command-line argument.

default : object, optional

Default value. If None, then the command-line option is required. This argument isignored if the command-line argument is positional (name does not start with “-”) because positional arguments do not support default values.

.. deprecated:: v23.0

Gen2 DatasetArgument is no longer supported. This functionality has been disabled.