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[Python-Dev] argparse ambiguity handling

Jon Ribbens jon+python-dev at unequivocal.co.uk
Tue Apr 20 21:54:32 CEST 2010 
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 03:27:53PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> I have a preference to allow at least exact matches to succeed even in the 
> case of ambiguity - mainly because I accidentally created this already once, 
> and I feel it's better to at least work somewhat.  Not sure if there is any 
> more elegant solution.  OTOH, I feel this is somewhat inelegant, as it 
> appears to treat exact match as a special case.

Surely an exact match *is* a special case - it's an exact match!
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