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

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Tue Apr 20 21:10:00 CEST 2010

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

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.

I don't have a strong feeling about this. What was the behavior before?

Steve

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