[Python-Dev] argparse ugliness (original) (raw)

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Mon Mar 8 22:35:46 CET 2010

On 2010-03-08 15:20 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

Mark Russell wrote:

Boolean flags are a common enough case that I'd be inclined to add a wrapper method,

parser.addboolargument('--plot') +1, this looks good.

I've added it to the argparse bugtracker, along with my suggested spelling add_flag():

http://code.google.com/p/argparse/issues/detail?id=62

-- Robert Kern

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