[Python-Dev] argparse ugliness

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Mar 10 13:48:23 CET 2010


Greg Ewing wrote:
> Xavier Morel wrote:
>> So you'd have to write add_argument('--plot',
>> action=actions.store_true) which is straight from the department of
>> redundant redundancies.
> 
> This could easily be fixed with
> 
> from argparse.actions import store_true

Converting argparse from a module to a package (which would be necessary
to make the above work) is above the bar I set for "easy".

Cheers,
Nick.

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