Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> added the comment:
this is a common enough question, and enough people want this behavior, that
argparse should supply it.
I'm imagining that:
type='bool'
would be fine for triggering this behavior, instead of the shadowing that could
happen with:
type=bool
so if type='bool' is supplied, the following things would happen:
* argparse could use strtobool to interpret the incoming string
* the default metavar would look something like "{true,false}"
* followon packages like argcomplete could enumerate the range of different
values that strtobool accepts
This is still english-specific -- but it's because strtobool is
english-specific, and fixes in strtobool would automatically fix type='bool'
here.
----------
nosy: +dkg
_______________________________________
Python tracker <[email protected]>
<https://bugs.python.org/issue37564>
_______________________________________
_______________________________________________
Python-bugs-list mailing list
Unsubscribe:
https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
