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Author paul.j3
Recipients bethard, bob.ippolito, bradengroom, derelbenkoenig, paul.j3, rhettinger
Date 2018-10-18.16:57:30
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Adding a new 'type' function or factor is certainly possible, and probably will be free of backward compatibility issues.  But so far no other custom type has been added to argparse.

https://bugs.python.org/issue23884 - rejects adding a DateTime class

https://bugs.python.org/issue22884 - there are several outstanding issue dealing with the FileType class.  That hasn't aged well, since file IO standards have changed over the years.
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