[issue17240] argparse: subcommand name and arity

2013-02-19 Thread Thibault Kruse
New submission from Thibault Kruse: I realize there have been several suggestions around argparse subcommands. Mine is related to this isse: http://bugs.python.org/issue9253 In short, I suggest that the add_subparsers() function take an argument like nargs that determines how many times user

[issue17240] argparse: subcommand name and arity

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Jerdonek
Chris Jerdonek added the comment: This is not satisfactory. I would prefer: import argparse argparser = argparse.ArgumentParser() subparsers = argparser.add_subparsers('cmd1') % name here Have you tried passing by keyword? subparsers = argparser.add_subparsers(dest='cmd1') It seems to