[Python-Dev] argparse ugliness

[Georg Brandl]

Am 06.03.2010 03:28, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
> Le Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:51:15 -0500,
> Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> I generally enjoy argparse, but one thing I find rather
>> ugly and unpythonic.
>> 
>>     parser.add_argument ('--plot', action='store_true')
> 
> I would argue that a string is actually more Pythonic than
> integers or anonymous objects repurposed as magic constants.
> (I'm looking at things such as SEEK_SET and friends)

Me too.  In absence of a separate symbol type, Python itself
uses strings for this purpose (hence the intern()ing business).

Georg

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