[issue10190] Can argparse._AttributeHolder._get_kwargs become a public API?

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Marking this as out-of-date. It seems that the desired functionality has already been added in types.SimpleNamespace: # Capabilities of _AttributeHolder >>> ah = _AttributeHolder() >>> ah AttributeHolder() >>> ah.raymond='Red' >>>

[issue10190] Can argparse._AttributeHolder._get_kwargs become a public API?

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[issue10190] Can argparse._AttributeHolder._get_kwargs become a public API?

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[issue10190] Can argparse._AttributeHolder._get_kwargs become a public API?

paul j3 added the comment: Apart from sorting, `_get_kwargs` does little more than: return [k for k in action.__dict__.items() if not k[0].startswith('_')] That is, it's the `items()` of the 'public' attributes of the action (or parser). Those attributes are already accessible to the

[issue10190] Can argparse._AttributeHolder._get_kwargs become a public API?

Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment: Could you elaborate a little on what you use it for? The argparse module only uses this for pretty __repr__ on the various objects. (And in fact, it looks like it's gotten a little out of sync - required is missing from Action, and a

[issue10190] Can argparse._AttributeHolder._get_kwargs become a public API?

Dariusz Suchojad ds...@gefira.pl added the comment: I find that _AttributeHolder is a handy way for passing the command line options around the application. What is lacks though is a documented API for actually fetching the attributes in batches, like .items() or something similar that could

[issue10190] Can argparse._AttributeHolder._get_kwargs become a public API?

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[issue10190] Can argparse._AttributeHolder._get_kwargs become a public API?

New submission from Dariusz Suchojad ds...@gefira.pl: Hello, I was wondering if it were possible for the argparse._AttributeHolder._get_kwargs to become a part of the public API. Using this method is a very convenient way to get a hold of the arguments provided by the user and it would be