[New-bugs-announce] [issue8538] Add ConfigureAction to argparse

[Eric Smith]

New submission from Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com>:

>From a python-dev email from Neal Becker, copied here so it won't get lost.
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steven.bethard at gmail.com made a very nice module for me to enhance argparse called argparse_bool.py, which contains ConfigureAction.  This will allow a boolean value to be set very like the gnu configure style:

--foo
--with-foo
--without-foo
--no-foo
--foo=yes
--foo=no

I've been happily using it, and I think it would be of sufficient general interest to include it with the standard library.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: argparse_bool.py
messages: 104259
nosy: bethard, eric.smith
severity: normal
status: open
title: Add ConfigureAction to argparse
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17100/argparse_bool.py

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