[Python-Dev] argparse suggestion

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 26, 2010, at 08:20 AM, Neal Becker wrote:

>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.

+1.  This would be a very nice addition to argparse in the stdlib.

-Barry
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