[Tutor] File-Fetcher (cmdline-parser)

[Christopher Emery]

Hello Peter,

First let me say thanks for your feedback, please see comments /
question below, yours starting with PO and mine starting with CE.

PO: dest determines the attribute name under which the option is
stored. I rarely set it explicitly; instead I provide a --long-option:
CE: Is there a advantage over on or the other?

CE: Because there are options that can be added to each .add_argument
such as help=, action= is it a good idea to set each one of them even
if the default behavior is what you want?  I thinking future proofing
wise.
PO: To my eyes this is just noise.
CE: I would agree, to me less the better as long as it can be
understood and your not going to break something in the near future
that will change.

CE: At the end I use a print() to see if all is being passed or not
being passed through the cmdline, my question for you is if I want to
access the varibles that are passed through the return args, do I just
take the function like this:
outside_of_functions_var = cmdline_parser()
Does this make outside_of_functions_var a dict or list or other?
PO: Neither a dict nor a list, it is an argparse.Namespace object. You
can access commandline options as its attributes:
CE: Okay, so when I use print(args.file_list) or better yet if I take
list = args.file_list does it stay a Namespace object or does it
change?  if it stays the same how do I access the list of files inside
it?

Thank you ahead of time for your assistance in helping me to learn and
understand.

Sincerely in Christ,
Christopher