AttributeError: 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'check'

Question

I am trying to run a python script on the command line with different arguments to it. There is one positional paramter ( num ) and others are optional parameters. I try to run [ python newping.py 10 -c ] but get the below error. Is there any error that I am not able to figure out?

import argparse

def fibo(num):
 a,b = 0,1
 for i in range(num):
    a,b=b,a+b;
 return a;

def Main():
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="To the find the fibonacci number of the give number")
 arg1 = parser.add_argument("num",help="The fibnocacci number to calculate:", type=int)
 arg2 = parser.add_argument("-p", "--password", dest="password",action="store_true", help="current appliance password. Between 8 and 15 characters, lower case, upper case and numbers")
 arg3 = parser.add_argument("-i", "--ignore",help="ignore the args",action="store_true", dest="ignore")
 arg4 = parser.add_argument("-c", "--check", help="performance metrics",action="store_true", dest="performance")
 arg5 = parser.add_argument("-m", "--node/model",dest="Node_Model",help="Type of the Model",action="store_true")
 parser.add_argument("-pf", "--permfile", help="increase output verbosity",action="store_true")
 args = parser.parse_args()

 result = fibo(args.num)
 print("The "+str(args.num)+"th fibonacci number is "+str(result))

 if args.permfile:

        for x in range(1,len(vars(args))):
            value = locals()["arg"+str(x)]
            print(value.dest+ " "+ value.help)

 if args.password:
    print("I am asking for the password")

 if args.ignore:
    print("This is to ignore the command")

 if args.check:
    print("Check the performance of the server")


 if __name__ == '__main__':
    Main()


 Output :
 The 10th fibonacci number is 55
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "newping.py", line 41, in <module>
  Main()
 File "newping.py", line 36, in Main
   if args.check:
   AttributeError: 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'check'

Answer 1

When you created the argument

arg4 = parser.add_argument("-c", "--check", help="performance metrics",
    action="store_true", dest="performance")

The dest paramter told argparse to use a variable named performance, not check. Change your code to:

if args.performance:
    print("Check the performance of the server")

or remove the dest param.

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