[Python-Dev] argparse ambiguity handling

[Jon Ribbens]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 03:27:53PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> I have a preference to allow at least exact matches to succeed even in the 
> case of ambiguity - mainly because I accidentally created this already once, 
> and I feel it's better to at least work somewhat.  Not sure if there is any 
> more elegant solution.  OTOH, I feel this is somewhat inelegant, as it 
> appears to treat exact match as a special case.

Surely an exact match *is* a special case - it's an exact match!