[Python-Dev] Issue 15906; regression in argparse in Python 3.3, 3.2, and 2.7

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sep 11, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Chris Jerdonek wrote:

>So another way out could simply be not to call type on non-strings.
>Indeed, this was done before.  One of the changes that was made in the
>patch for issue 12776 was to remove the str type check prior to
>calling type.

Yep, so probably that's the right fix for the regression.  I'll try to whip up
a patch.

Cheers,
-Barry