Python error: one of the arguments is required - windows

Question

I'm trying to run a code from github that uses Python to classify images but I'm getting an error.
here is the code:
import argparse as ap
import cv2
import imutils
import numpy as np
import os
from sklearn.svm import LinearSVC
from sklearn.externals import joblib
from scipy.cluster.vq import *
# Get the path of the testing set
parser = ap.ArgumentParser()
group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group(required=True)
group.add_argument("-t", "--testingSet", help="Path to testing Set")
group.add_argument("-i", "--image", help="Path to image")
parser.add_argument('-v',"--visualize", action='store_true')
args = vars(parser.parse_args())
# Get the path of the testing image(s) and store them in a list
image_paths = []
if args["testingSet"]:
test_path = args["testingSet"]
try:
testing_names = os.listdir(test_path)
except OSError:
print "No such directory {}\nCheck if the file exists".format(test_path)
exit()
for testing_name in testing_names:
dir = os.path.join(test_path, testing_name)
class_path = imutils.imlist(dir)
image_paths+=class_path
else:
image_paths = [args["image"]]
and this is the error message I'm getting
usage: getClass.py [-h]
(- C:/Users/Lenovo/Downloads/iris/bag-of-words-master/dataset/test TESTINGSET | - C:/Users/Lenovo/Downloads/iris/bag-of-words-master/dataset/test/test_1.jpg IMAGE)
[- C:/Users/Lenovo/Downloads/iris/bag-of-words-master/dataset]
getClass.py: error: one of the arguments - C:/Users/Lenovo/Downloads/iris/bag-of-words-master/dataset/test/--testingSet - C:/Users/Lenovo/Downloads/iris/bag-of-words-master/dataset/test/test_1.jpg/--image is required
can you please help me with this? where and how should I write the file path?

Answer 1

This is an error your own program is issuing. The message is not about the file path but about the number of arguments. This line
group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group(required=True)
says that only one of your command-line arguments (-t, -i) is permitted. But it appears from the error message that you are supplying both --testingSet and --image on your command line.
Since you only have 3 arguments, I have to wonder if you really need argument groups at all.
To get your command line to work, drop the mutually-exclusive group and add the arguments to the parser directly.
parser.add_argument("-t", "--testingSet", help="Path to testing Set")
parser.add_argument("-i", "--image", help="Path to image")
parser.add_argument('-v',"--visualize", action='store_true')