On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: > m h wrote: >> >> Perhaps this is OT, but since command line parsing is part of >> configuration, I figure I'd throw it out there. My scripts often have >> configuration that the command line can override and I loosely follow >> the example hierarchy[0] listed in The Art of Unix Programming. >> >> Some configuration I want in a config file (but I want to override >> from the command line) and sometimes it's very nice to use environment >> variables for configuration. So I do something like this: > > Integration with command line options is an occasionally-requested feature > for ConfigObj. I've always said I would be open to patches... > > In other words, yes I think there is demand for it. Whether it belongs > *immediately* in the standard library is another matter, but if you wrote a > layer that unified ConfigParser and argparse I think you will find that > people use it. > > It is well outside the realm of this PEP however.
What Michael said. ;-) If you'd like to provide a patch for argparse that provides such functionality, I'd be happy to review it. Steve -- Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that? --- The Hiphopopotamus _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com