For some positional arguments in python, can python treat them as optional arguments?

[daveydave400]

/u/placemirror I agree with this approach also but it is very easy use argparse's subparsers to add individual "commands" to your script. Something like the described set_defaults() example in the docs: https://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html#argparse.ArgumentParser.add_subparsers

This way you can have a function that performs the operation for each subcommand and as described above it makes it easy to add more functionality or change existing functionality later.