Adrian Sampson added the comment:
Thanks for the suggestion, Steven. I hadn't yet internalized the difference
between dest and metavar.
This version of the patch modifies metavar instead. Because it looks like this
issue is up for 3.2b2, I've modified NEWS and ACKS (I hope this was
Adrian Sampson added the comment:
Great. I've added a simple example to the documentation for argparse. I also
added a space to the comma separator in the alias list, but I'm worried that
adding 'aliases:' will make the help less readable (especially if every command
Adrian Sampson added the comment:
Sorry I'm slow. Here's a new patch that includes tests. I'll also write
documentation if that would be helpful, although I'm not very familiar with the
style recommendations.
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20034/ar
Adrian Sampson added the comment:
Thanks for the pointer, Éric. Here's a quick patch that integrates the same
functionality into the existing subparser class.
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keywords: +patch
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20026/argparse-aliases.
New submission from Adrian Sampson :
The argparse module supports "subparsers," which allow CLI tools to support
invocation of subcommands (much like the svn or hg programs). For these
subcommands, it is often useful to allow multiple names for the same command.
For instance, in
