Changed default value for USE_ARG_LIST global to True

Now by default all @options commands get passed a list of argument strings instead of a single argument string.

This is a much easier and more robust behavior to deal with.  Additionally, command-line arguments are intelligently separated based on location of quotes to group things into a single argument.

WARNING:  This change breaks backward compatibility for older applicaitons based on cmd2.  To change the behavior to the way it used to be, add the following code to the __init__() method of our class derived from cmd2.Cmd:
    cmd2.set_use_arg_list(False)

This change really does make it easier for developers new to using cmd2 however.  It is to the point where I create all custom commands with @options, even if I use an empty list for the options because the argument parsing is just much better this way.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/examples/python_scripting.py b/examples/python_scripting.py
index 6c64dd9f..716a18a3 100755
--- a/examples/python_scripting.py
+++ b/examples/python_scripting.py
@@ -19,9 +19,6 @@ import os
 
 from cmd2 import Cmd, options, make_option, CmdResult, set_use_arg_list
 
-# For option commands, pass a list of argument strings instead of a single argument string to the do_* methods
-set_use_arg_list(True)
-
 
 class CmdLineApp(Cmd):
     """ Example cmd2 application to showcase conditional control flow in Python scripting within cmd2 aps. """
@@ -33,6 +30,9 @@ class CmdLineApp(Cmd):
         self.autorun_on_edit = False
         self.intro = 'Happy 𝛑 Day.  Note the full Unicode support:  😇  (Python 3 only)  💩'
 
+        # For option commands, pass a list of argument strings instead of a single argument string to the do_* methods
+        set_use_arg_list(True)
+
     def _set_prompt(self):
         """Set prompt so it displays the current working directory."""
         self.cwd = os.getcwd()