gh-59330: argparse: Properly handle positional arguments containing '-' #104092
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furkanonder
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| @@ -1577,6 +1587,9 @@ def _get_positional_kwargs(self, dest, **kwargs): | |||
| if kwargs.get('nargs') == ZERO_OR_MORE and 'default' not in kwargs: | |||
| kwargs['required'] = True | |||
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| # make dest attribute-accessible, 'foo-bar' -> 'foo_bar' | |||
| dest = dest.replace('-', '_') | |||
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It has a side effect of changing the default metavar.
| return key in self.__dict__ or key.replace('-', '_') in self.__dict__ | ||
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| def __getattr__(self, name): | ||
| # Compatibility for people doing getattr(args, 'foo-bar') instead of |
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But what about setattr(args, 'foo-bar') and delattr(args, 'foo-bar')?
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| Hyphens in positional arguments in argparse module are automatically replaced with underscores. Patch by Simon Law and Furkan Onder. | |||
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It should be in the Library section.
AlexWaygood
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Close this PR as it is too complex and may still break user code. |
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Co-authored by: Simon Law