[stdlib-sig] should we try to add argparse?

Thomas Heller theller at ctypes.org
Thu Sep 10 23:10:26 CEST 2009


>> I have not used argparse, but I am missing a feature that is needed
>> on Windows:  It should be possible to mark option flags
>> not only with a '-' sign (or a '--' sign) but also with a '/' sign,
>> plus it should be possible to have case-insensitive parsing of option
>> names.  So that '-regserver', '/regserver' and '/RegServer' all
>> mean the same thing.
>>
>> Does argparse allow this?
> 
> According to http://argparse.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/argparse-vs-optparse.html
> it does.

Then it gets a +1 from me.

-- 
Thanks,
Thomas


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