[issue14149] argparse: Document how to use argument names that are not Python identifiers

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I think this one should have been closed long ago. -- nosy: +rhettinger resolution: -> out of date stage: needs patch -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue14149] argparse: Document how to use argument names that are not Python identifiers

Dan Arad added the comment: Hi everyone! I thought to take this issue up by updating the documentation. Is this still relevant? If so I think the best place to add the documentation is in the "name or flags" section, where people will go looking first. I think to add both the metavar and

[issue14149] argparse: Document how to use argument names that are not Python identifiers

Change by Fred L. Drake, Jr. : -- versions: +Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 -Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue14149] argparse: Document how to use argument names that are not Python identifiers

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[issue14149] argparse: Document how to use argument names that are not Python identifiers

Mark Lawrence added the comment: #11076 was closed as a duplicate of #8982 which was closed as fixed so can this also be closed as a duplicate? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14149

[issue14149] argparse: Document how to use argument names that are not Python identifiers

Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- assignee: - docs@python components: +Documentation -Library (Lib) keywords: +easy nosy: +docs@python stage: - needs patch title: argparse usage model requires argument names to be python identifiers - argparse: Document how to use argument

[issue14149] argparse: Document how to use argument names that are not Python identifiers

Joseph Birr-Pixton jpix...@gmail.com added the comment: I don’t understand, can you rephrase? Sorry, I mean making Namespace subscriptable. eg: v = argparse.Namespace(abc = 123) v Namespace(abc=123) v.abc 123 v['abc'] Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in module

[issue14149] argparse: Document how to use argument names that are not Python identifiers

Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment: making Namespace subscriptable This has been discussed before - see issue 11076. I prefer to keep Namespace as simple as possible. For subscripting, just use the standard Python idiom of vars as suggested in the docs: