[Python-Dev] argparse ugliness

[Xavier Morel]

I don't believe argparse's action specification scheme is bad either, but

On 6 Mar 2010, at 13:50 , Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 
> you wouldn't get the static name checking that is
> the primary benefit of using named constants in less dynamic languages.

There are quite a few tools which do handle static checking of that kind
of stuff, so while Python itself doesn't provide it (as a builtin) it's
not like you can't get it some other way.