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From: Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 01:23:46 +0100
Subject: Re: Why is the argparse module so inflexible?
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On 27 June 2013 22:30, Jason Swails <jason.swails@gmail.com> wrote:
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> An alternative is, of course, to simply subclass ArgumentParser and copy
> over all of the code that catches an ArgumentError to eliminate the internal
> exception handling and instead allow them to propagate the call stack.

I would think it easier to wrap getopt than monkey-patch argparse in this way.


Oscar