[issue18769] argparse remove subparser

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[issue18769] argparse remove subparser

paul j3 added the comment: There's a partial overlap with this issue http://bugs.python.org/issue22848 which seeks to hide a subparser - both in the help lines and the choices lists. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue18769] argparse remove subparser

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[issue18769] argparse remove subparser

paul j3 added the comment: Under what circumstances would this be useful? http://bugs.python.org/issue19462 asks for a 'remove_argument' method. That seems to be most useful if the argument is inherited from a parent parser. A subparsers argument could be inherited from a parent (I think),

[issue18769] argparse remove subparser

Chris Angelico added the comment: Patch applies cleanly to 3.6 and doesn't appear to add any new test failures (3.6 currently has a couple). Needs its own test, though. -- nosy: +Rosuav versions: +Python 3.6 -Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker

[issue18769] argparse remove subparser

Mark Lawrence added the comment: @Paul it's a simple enough patch, what do you think? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue18769

[issue18769] argparse remove subparser

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[issue18769] argparse remove subparser

New submission from Michael Bikovitsky: It might be useful in some circumstances to be able to remove a subparser, however the module does not provide such functionality. The proposed method takes the same arguments as the add_parser method and removes the matching subparser from the map