py.user added the comment: paul j3 wrote: > It's an attempt to turn such flags into valid variable names.
I'm looking at code and see that he wanted to make it handy for use in a resulting Namespace. args = argparse.parse_args(['--a-b-c']) abc = args.a_b_c If he doesn't convert, he cannot get attribute without getattr(). It's not a UNIX reason. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24338> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com