[Python-ideas] Re: argparse: reduce complexity around 'subcommand action objects'?

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 5:28 AM wrote:

I would love to make the 'subcommands' functionality provided in argparse more user-friendly. I think I have a worthwhile feature request to share:

* Be able to add multiple subcommands to an ArgumentParser, without needing to track the 'action_object'

I've outlined an motivating example below, and shared an implementation of this feature that I've started using in one of my projects.

A reasonable idea, but what I'd recommend is building a wrapper around argparse that does what you want. One good example is clize: https://pypi.org/project/clize/ ChrisA