[issue8538] Add ConfigureAction to argparse

Jeremiah Jordan added the comment: I think this should be updated so that nargs=0 is allowed, so that you can only do --foo/--no-foo and don't clutter up the help/interface with --foo [FOO] --no-foo=[FOO] You can do this by adding nargs to the ConfigureAction.__init__ and passing that throug

[issue8538] Add ConfigureAction to argparse

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[issue8538] Add ConfigureAction to argparse

Éric Araujo added the comment: I think you can go ahead and produce a patch. Don’t start splitting argparse into a package now though, this is a sensible decision IMO but has to be agreed by the maintainer; just add FlagAction and ConfigureAction to argparse for now. -- stage: -> nee

[issue8538] Add ConfigureAction to argparse

Yaniv Aknin added the comment: I'm looking into making a patch from this for py3k, and have the following observations: 1. I agree with merwok, at the moment the monolithic ConfigureAction is a bit excessive for most uses (other than maybe emulating ./Configure...). I vote we split it to Fla

[issue8538] Add ConfigureAction to argparse

Éric Araujo added the comment: Are we sure we want three or four ways to spell the same thing? --foo and --no-foo seem a useful couple to me, and --with-foo/--without-foo cater to different use cases. Perhaps it would be ok to have a SwitchAction (or FlagAction) for --thing/--no-hing and one

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[issue8538] Add ConfigureAction to argparse

New submission from Eric Smith : >From a python-dev email from Neal Becker, copied here so it won't get lost. steven.beth...@gmail.com made a very nice module for me to enhance argparse called argparse_bool.py, which contains ConfigureAction. This will allow a bool