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Author	py.user
Recipients	mbussonn, paul.j3, py.user, serhiy.storchaka
Date	2015-06-03.22:42:13
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Message-id	<1433371333.66.0.596629910083.issue24338@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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paul j3 wrote: > It's an attempt to turn such flags into valid variable names. I'm looking at code and see that he wanted to make it handy for use in a resulting Namespace. args = argparse.parse_args(['--a-b-c']) abc = args.a_b_c If he doesn't convert, he cannot get attribute without getattr(). It's not a UNIX reason.

paul j3 wrote:
> It's an attempt to turn such flags into valid variable names.

I'm looking at code and see that he wanted to make it handy for use in a resulting Namespace.

args = argparse.parse_args(['--a-b-c'])
abc = args.a_b_c

If he doesn't convert, he cannot get attribute without getattr().

It's not a UNIX reason.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2015-06-03 22:42:13	py.user	set	recipients: + py.user, paul.j3, serhiy.storchaka, mbussonn
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