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[Python-Dev] argparse ambiguity handling

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Tue Apr 20 21:10:00 CEST 2010 
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed argparse ambiguity handling has changed a bit over last few
> revisions.
>
> I have cases where 1 valid input is a prefix of another:
>
> e.g.:
> '--string'
> '--string2'
>
> With the most recent 1.1, the behavior is:
>
> --string=hello
>
> is accepted, while:
>
> --strin=hello
>
> is marked as ambiguous.
>
> I'm OK with this, but just want to know if there is agreement that this is
> the behavior we want.

I don't have a strong feeling about this. What was the behavior before?

Steve
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