Call function based on argparse

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Since it seems like you want to run one, and only one, function depending on the arguments given, I would suggest you use a mandatory positional argument ./prog command, instead of optional arguments (./prog --command1 or ./prog --command2).

so, something like this should do it:

FUNCTION_MAP = {'top20' : my_top20_func,
                'listapps' : my_listapps_func }

parser.add_argument('command', choices=FUNCTION_MAP.keys())

args = parser.parse_args()

func = FUNCTION_MAP[args.command]
func()

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