[Python-ideas] Fwd: argparse - add support for environment variables

[Vito De Tullio]

Eli Bendersky wrote:

> In general, I'm -1 on the idea. argparse is for parsing command line
> arguments. Python provides you convenient access to env vars via
> os.environ. Why mix up the two?

well, command line arguments, environmental variables and, I add, 
configuration files are commonly intertwined.

While argparse focus on the first one, there are cases where you want some 
"layer" on top of it and on os.environ and on... ConfigParser?) to DRY.

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ZeD