shangxiao added the comment:
Oh apologies, I had "open" selected when I searched for prior issues.
Upon reading that issue I agree with Mr Hettinger's points about enum values
not being a concern of the parser.
The solution for my needs was simple enough: I made my own acti
New submission from shangxiao :
Summary
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The argparse module mentions that it will happily accept an enum for the
choices argument option [1]. There are currently 2 issues with this:
1. The usage displays non user-friendly values for the enum;
2. The error message for invalid values
shangxiao added the comment:
Here's the section in the docs for BooleanOptionalAction:
https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/argparse.html#action
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title: BooleanOptionalAction missing "New in version 3.9" -> Docs for
argparse.BooleanOptionalAction missing &
New submission from shangxiao :
The section that describes BooleanOptionalAction just requires a "New in
version 3.9" tag
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 379867
nosy: docs@python, shangxiao
priority: normal
severity: normal
status:
