I don't believe argparse's action specification scheme is bad either, but On 6 Mar 2010, at 13:50 , Nick Coghlan wrote: > > you wouldn't get the static name checking that is > the primary benefit of using named constants in less dynamic languages.
There are quite a few tools which do handle static checking of that kind of stuff, so while Python itself doesn't provide it (as a builtin) it's not like you can't get it some other way. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com