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suggestion for optparse

optparse is great. I have one small suggestion for an improvement.
optparse supports boolean switches, with action=store_false/store_true. It
would be handy if one specification would automatically add both positive
and negative forms.

For example:

parser.add_option ("", "--limit", action="store_toggle", dest="doLimit",
default=True)

might add both

--limit

and

--no-limit
Jul 18 '05 #1
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