Message 166165 - Python tracker

Message166165

Author	bethard
Recipients	Jeremiah.Jordan, Yaniv.Aknin, berker.peksag, bethard, eric.araujo, eric.smith
Date	2012-07-22.20:08:21
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Message-id	<1342987702.46.0.808319525391.issue8538@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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On the off chance that someone was waiting for feedback from me, I'll say: (1) A simple boolean --foo/--no-foo action seems useful to me. I would probably call it BooleanOptionalAction rather than FlagAction. (Almost anything could be considered a "flag".) (2) At the moment, argparse doesn't supply any actions, so I don't think we should make a separate namespace for them. If it starts to grow a list of such actions, we can add a separate namespace later. (And given that the name will end with "Action", I think it should be pretty clear without the namespace.)

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On the off chance that someone was waiting for feedback from me, I'll say:

(1) A simple boolean --foo/--no-foo action seems useful to me. I would probably call it BooleanOptionalAction rather than FlagAction. (Almost anything could be considered a "flag".)

(2) At the moment, argparse doesn't supply any actions, so I don't think we should make a separate namespace for them. If it starts to grow a list of such actions, we can add a separate namespace later. (And given that the name will end with "Action", I think it should be pretty clear without the namespace.)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-07-22 20:08:22	bethard	set	recipients: + bethard, eric.smith, eric.araujo, Yaniv.Aknin, Jeremiah.Jordan, berker.peksag
2012-07-22 20:08:22	bethard	set	messageid: <1342987702.46.0.808319525391.issue8538@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2012-07-22 20:08:21	bethard	create