Some twiddeling around with argparse.

picoblogger/main.py

@@ -6,8 +6,16 @@ from argparse import ArgumentParser
 
 # check for arguments and options
 parser = ArgumentParser(description="Manage your weblog via commandline. Creates a static html5 compliant website with your publications.")
-parser.add_argument('--blog-dir', dest="blog_dir", default='~/public_html/blog', help='path to blog directory (default: %(default)s)')
-parser.add_argument('action', choices=['update'], help='updates blog to current state')
+parser.add_argument('-d','--blog-dir', dest="blog_dir", default='~/public_html/blog', help='path to blog directory (default: %(default)s)')
+
+subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(help="subcommands")
+parser_update = subparsers.add_parser('update', help='updates blog to current state')
+parser_update.add_argument('subsection', choices=['all','articles','archive'], help='sections of blog you may want to update')
+
+parser_draft = subparsers.add_parser('draft', help='create, list or edit drafts')
+
+parser_article = subparsers.add_parser('article', help='import, list, edit or delete [article]')
+
 args = parser.parse_args()
 print(vars(args))