[Python-Dev] argparse ambiguity handling (original) (raw)

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 20 20:55:28 CEST 2010

I've noticed argparse ambiguity handling has changed a bit over last few revisions.

I have cases where 1 valid input is a prefix of another:

e.g.: '--string' '--string2'

With the most recent 1.1, the behavior is:

--string=hello

is accepted, while:

--strin=hello

is marked as ambiguous.

I'm OK with this, but just want to know if there is agreement that this is the behavior we want.