[issue15874] argparse cannot parse shell variable arguments in file-given arguments

2012-09-10 Thread Nat Hillard
Nat Hillard added the comment: Thank you, everyone. Defining a new type for this is just what I needed. No additional modifications are necessary on top of this new type. -- resolution: -> works for me status: open -> closed ___ Python t

[issue15874] argparse cannot parse shell variable arguments in file-given arguments

2012-09-06 Thread Nat Hillard
Nat Hillard added the comment: Indeed these are all valid points, and as a zsh user myself I certainly considered the alternative shell issue. That said, if it were at all possible, through a combination of os.environ / shlex, subprocess, and even `source` if necessary, to offload this

[issue15874] argparse cannot parse bash variable arguments in file-given arguments

2012-09-06 Thread Nat Hillard
New submission from Nat Hillard: When using the argparse argument fromfile_prefix_chars to obtain command line arguments from a file, it is not possible to make use of bash environment variables within this file. Ideally one would be able to `export BAR='/Users/x/Desktop/bar'`, and

[issue4017] Tkinter cannot find Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X

2008-10-17 Thread Nat
Changes by Nat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- nosy: -njw23 ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4017> ___ ___ Python-bugs

[issue4017] IDLE 2.6 broken on OSX (Leopard)

2008-10-16 Thread Nat
Nat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Do you know if you have tcl/tk somewhere else? Otherwise, I think you need to install it. You can get the source from Sourceforge, or I think you can get it from Activestate. http://tcl.sourceforge.net/ ___

[issue4017] IDLE 2.6 broken on OSX (Leopard)

2008-10-14 Thread Nat
Nat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: If you look in /Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/, what's there? How about in /Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.5/? ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.

[issue4017] IDLE 2.6 broken on OSX (Leopard)

2008-10-07 Thread Nat
Nat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I asked a slightly different question (related to tkinter in general on OS 10.4.11), but the symptoms were remarkably similar - perhaps the solution is as well? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1114b05318