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

Fred Drake fdrake at acm.org
Wed Mar 10 14:22:44 CET 2010

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

All of this discussion about the class names is ignoring the main benefit of using the string names:

Another benefit of strings is that data-driven argparse configuration will usually be slightly simpler.

Some of us find things like that useful. :-)

-Fred

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