On 15Mar2012 09:28, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: | In article <mailman.665.1331806024.3037.python-l...@python.org>, | Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: | > Yes. Not all type(default) types can be called with a string to produce a | > valid | > value. Note that "type=" is really a misnomer. argparse doesn't really want a | > type object there; it wants a converter function that takes a string to an | > object. | | Orthogonal to my original suggestion, I agree that this is misnamed. | I'm +1 on the idea of renaming it to conversion= or something like that | (we'd need to keep type= around as a deprecated synonym for backwards | compatability). It's really hard to get your head around "type=open".
"factory"? Anyway, far too late to change this now! -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ all coders are created equal; that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights, of these are beer, net connectivity, and the pursuit of bugfixes... - Gregory R Block -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
