[Python-Dev] add bool type to optparse

[Guido van Rossum]

Why not submit a patch to Greg Ward? http://optik.sourceforge.net/

On 7/31/07, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> A.M. Kuchling wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:50:38AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> >> Subject says it all.
> >
> > Why is boolean support needed, given that optparse has store_true and
> > store_false actions?  Example usage:
> >
> >     parser.add_option('--confirm', action='store_true', dest='confirm')
> >
> > --amk
>
> So you can do:
> --option=false
>
> Otherwise you have to do something like:
> (action='store_false', default=True)
>
> and use:
> --no-option
>
> which is OK sometimes, but why not allow a choice?
>
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