Enchancement suggestion for argparse: intuit type from default

[Ben Finney]

roy at panix.com (Roy Smith) writes:

> Using argparse, if I write:
>
>     parser.add_argument('--foo', default=100)
>
> it seems like it should be able to intuit that the type of foo should
> be int (i.e. type(default))
[…]

-0.5.

That feels too magical to me. I don't see a need to special-case that
usage. There's not much burden in being explicit for the argument type.

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Ben Finney