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, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tests/test_transcript.py b/tests/test_transcript.py
index 5ac7d6fd..4a7d57a6 100644
--- a/tests/test_transcript.py
+++ b/tests/test_transcript.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import six
 # Used for sm.input: raw_input() for Python 2 or input() for Python 3
 import six.moves as sm
 
-from cmd2 import Cmd, make_option, options, Cmd2TestCase
+from cmd2 import Cmd, make_option, options, Cmd2TestCase, set_use_arg_list
 from conftest import run_cmd, StdOut, normalize
 
 
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ class CmdLineApp(Cmd):
         # Need to use this older form of invoking super class constructor to support Python 2.x and Python 3.x
         Cmd.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
         self.settable.append('maxrepeats   Max number of `--repeat`s allowed')
+        set_use_arg_list(False)
 
     opts = [make_option('-p', '--piglatin', action="store_true", help="atinLay"),
             make_option('-s', '--shout', action="store_true", help="N00B EMULATION MODE"),