cleaned up the function and added the header info

binarycpython/utils/functions.py

@@ -53,11 +53,16 @@ def get_help(param_name, return_dict):
     - available macros
 
     This function reads out that structure and catches the different components of this output
-    Presenting it in 
+    
+    Will print a dict
+
+    return_dict: wether to return the help info dictionary
 
     """
 
-    if param_name in get_arg_keys():
+    available_arg_keys = get_arg_keys()
+
+    if param_name in available_arg_keys:
         help_info = binary_c_python_api.return_help(param_name)
         cleaned = [el for el in help_info.split('\n') if not el=='']
 
@@ -104,12 +109,9 @@ def get_help(param_name, return_dict):
         if return_dict:
             return help_info_dict
 
-
-
-get_help('RLOF_method', return_dict=True)
-
-
-
+    else:
+        print("{} is not a valid parameter name. Please choose from the following parameters:\n\t{}".format(param_name, list(available_arg_keys)))
+        return None
 
 def run_system(**kwargs):
     """

include/binary_c_python.h

@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@
 #include "binary_c_API_prototypes.h"
 
 /* Binary_c's python API prototypes */
-int run_binary (char * argstring,
+int run_binary(char * argstring,
                 char ** const outstring,
                 char ** const errorstring,
                 size_t * const nbytes);
 
-int run_binary_with_logfile (char * argstring,
+int run_binary_with_logfile(char * argstring,
                 char ** const outstring,
                 char ** const errorstring,
                 size_t * const nbytes);
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ int return_arglines(char ** const outstring,
                 char ** const errorstring,  
                 size_t * const nbytes);
 
+int return_help_info(char * argstring,
+                char ** const outstring,
+                char ** const errorstring,
+                size_t * const nbytes);
+
+
+
 /* C macros */
 #define BINARY_C_APITEST_VERSION 0.1
 #define APIprint(...) APIprintf(__VA_ARGS__);