[Python-Dev] argparse ugliness

[David Stanek]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Steven Bethard
<steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In argparse, unlike optparse, actions are actually defined by objects
> with a particular API, and the string is just a shorthand for
> referring to that. So:
>
>  parser.add_argument ('--plot', action='store_true')
>
> is equivalent to:
>
>  parser.add_argument('--plot', argparse._StoreTrueAction)
>
> Because the names are so long and you'd have to import them, I've left
> them as private attributes of the module, but if there's really
> demand, we could rename them to argparse.StoreTrueAction, etc.
>

Any reason not to do something like:

  from argparse import actions
  ...
  parser.add_argument('--plot', actions.store_true)

Basically a small namespace for the constants.

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