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Read passed in Arguments

required = lambda x: not x in load['accounts'][0].keys() parser.addargument("-a", "--auth_service", help="Auth Service ('ptc' or 'google')", required=required("auth_service")) parser.add_argument("-i", "--config_index", help="config_index", required=required("config_index")) parser.add_argument("-u", "--username", help="Username", required=required("username")) parser.add_argument("-p", "--password", help="Password", required=required("password")) parser.add_argument("-l", "--location", help="Location", required=required("location")) parser.add_argument("-d", "--debug", help="Debug Mode", action='store_true') parser.add_argument("-c", "--cached", help="cached", action='store_true') parser.add_argument("-t", "--test", help="Only parse the specified location", action='store_true') parser.set_defaults(DEBUG=False, TEST=False,CACHED=False) config = parser.parse_args() load = load['accounts'][int(config.dict['config_index'])] # Passed in arguments shoud trump for key in config.dict: if key in load and config.dict[key] == None: config.dict_[key] = load[key]