[Python-Dev] argparse ugliness

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Mon Mar 8 22:35:46 CET 2010


On 2010-03-08 15:20 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Mark Russell wrote:
>> Boolean flags are a common enough case that I'd be inclined to add a
>> wrapper method,
>>
>> parser.add_bool_argument('--plot')
>
> +1, this looks good.

I've added it to the argparse bugtracker, along with my suggested spelling 
add_flag():

   http://code.google.com/p/argparse/issues/detail?id=62

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Robert Kern

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