[docs] [issue15428] add "Name Collision" section to argparse docs
paul j3
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Fri Aug 8 01:27:58 CEST 2014
paul j3 added the comment:
On Stackoverflow a couple of posters have asked about nesting namespaces as a way of separating the parser and subparser arguments.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15782948
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18668227
One solution that I rather like http://stackoverflow.com/a/18709860/901925
uses a custom Namespace class that recognizes a 'dest' like
p.add_argument('--deep', dest='test.doo.deep')
and produces
Nestedspace(foo='test', test=Nestedspace(bar='baz', doo=Nestedspace(deep='doodod')))
I wonder if a simplified version of this could be added to the Namespace section in the documentation.
There are 2 sides to the name conflict issue:
- what control does the programmer have over names (esp. when using [parents] and subparsers)?
- how does the programmer want to access the arguments in the resulting namespace?
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