DatasetArgument¶
- class lsst.pipe.base.DatasetArgument(name=None, help='dataset type to process from input data repository', default=None)¶
Bases:
DynamicDatasetType
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.
- name
Methods Summary
addArgument
(parser, idName)Add a command-line argument to specify the dataset type name.
getDatasetType
(namespace)Get the dataset type as a string, from the appropriate command-line argument.
Methods Documentation
- addArgument(parser, idName)¶
Add a command-line argument to specify the dataset type name.
- Parameters:
- parser
ArgumentParser
Argument parser.
- idName
str
Data ID.
- parser
Notes
Also sets the
name
attribute if it is currentlyNone
.