[Python-Dev] PEP 389: argparse - new command line parsing module

[Steven Bethard]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Michael Foord
<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> m h wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps this is OT, but since command line parsing is part of
>> configuration, I figure I'd throw it out there.  My scripts often have
>> configuration that the command line can override and I loosely follow
>> the example hierarchy[0] listed in The Art of Unix Programming.
>>
>> Some configuration I want in a config file (but I want to override
>> from the command line) and sometimes it's very nice to use environment
>> variables for configuration.  So I do something like this:
>
> Integration with command line options is an occasionally-requested feature
> for ConfigObj. I've always said I would be open to patches...
>
> In other words, yes I think there is demand for it. Whether it belongs
> *immediately* in the standard library is another matter, but if you wrote a
> layer that unified ConfigParser and argparse I think you will find that
> people use it.
>
> It is well outside the realm of this PEP however.

What Michael said. ;-) If you'd like to provide a patch for argparse
that provides such functionality, I'd be happy to review it.

Steve
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