Hi Al, I've been playing with the same module. I'm going by my memory right now, so make sure you check me out. I think that you can override a method called precmd and another clled postcmd. Yes. I'm right. Check out this page. http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/cmd/index.html Jim On 10/23/12, Al Puzzuoli <alpuzz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've begun playing with Python's CMD module, and I now have a > functioning command line interface to my program. I was initially > perplexed though as I was seeing odd errors when executing many of my > methods. Long story short, I realized that this was due to the fact that > CMD passes parameters in as strings, and my functions expected ints. > It's really not a big deal, I can just convert to int within each > method, but it seems there should be a more elegant way to deal with this. > > Thanks, > > Al > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > -- e+r=o Skype: jim.homme ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq