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Subject:    [Python-ideas] Re: argparse: reduce complexity around 'subcommand action objects'?
From:       Chris Angelico <rosuav () gmail ! com>
Date:       2021-09-15 20:08:43
Message-ID: CAPTjJmpBYRY9fD8qiYMwEXzrnAZq_0E3=E=PndLxd8hJSFh5bg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 5:28 AM <rleonar7@uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> I would love to make the 'subcommands' functionality provided in argparse more \
> user-friendly. I think I have a worthwhile feature request to share:
> 
> * Be able to add multiple subcommands to an ArgumentParser, without needing to \
> track the 'action_object' 
> I've outlined an motivating example below, and shared an implementation of this \
> feature that I've started using in one of my projects. 

A reasonable idea, but what I'd recommend is building a wrapper around
argparse that does what you want. One good example is clize:

https://pypi.org/project/clize/

ChrisA
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