[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Some rather unexpected behavior in the set_default/set_defaults > methods for OptionParser that I noticed recently: [...] > Why does set_default not raise an exception when passed a key that it > doesn't recognize? > > Bad typysts bewaer. > > The only reason I can think not to raise an exception is so that > defaults can be defined before the options are added. Is there some > use case that I'm not thinking of here? I realize that changing this > could break some existing scripts, but I'm still tempted to file this > as a bug.
If you file it as a bug then I can assure you that you'll be told of a long list of use-cases that depend on that feature. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
