Why is the argparse module so inflexible?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-06-27, Jason Swails <jason.swails at gmail.com> wrote:

> He _is_ using cmd.  He's subclassed cmd.Cmd and trying to use
> argparse to handle argument parsing in the Cmd.precmd method to
> preprocess the user input.

[...]

> Having subclassed cmd.Cmd myself in one of my programs and written my
> own argument parsing class to service it, I can appreciate what the
> OP is trying to do (and it's clever IMO).

Unfortunately, when writing software, being "clever" turns out to be A
Bad Thing(tm) as often as not.  ;)

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