[New-bugs-announce] [issue1243] option.dest not set when callback called with optparse

[Chris Withers]

New submission from Chris Withers:

The attached script demonstrates the bug.

option.dest should be set, even if not explicitly supplied in the call
to parser.add_option, by the time the callback is called.

Unless dest='something' is specified in the call to add_option, you will
get the following error when running "python test.py --myopt":

  File "test.py", line 4, in mycallback
    setattr(parser.values,option.dest,value)
TypeError: attribute name must be string

...as options.dest is still None.

I would expect options.dest to be computed as per the algorithm in
optparse.Option._check_dest.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: test.py
messages: 56252
nosy: cjw296
severity: normal
status: open
title: option.dest not set when callback called with optparse
versions: Python 2.3, Python 2.4, Python 2.5

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