function name aliases? about defopt HOT 5 CLOSED

Thanks for the report. I have no plans to implement this myself, but would happily take a PR if you or someone else would like to do it.

It should be relatively easy to alter the subcommand names; you can see where defopt sets the name of the subcommand here. Aliases might be a little harder since I don't believe argparse supports alises for subcommands out of the box. You might have to look at how argh/clize work for inspiration.

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I don't believe argparse supports alises for subcommands out of the box.

It does (via the not so well documented aliases argument to add_parser(), https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#argparse.ArgumentParser.add_subparsers), although it's Py3 only I think.

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Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. I'm fine with having this be a Python 3 only feature if it eases the implementation.

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Thanks for the pointer into the code! Now that I've had a look, it's actually easy to implement clize-style function renaming by passing a dict to defopt.run. I'll submit a PR once I update the documentation on my fork and figure out how to add unittests :)

I'm less interested in assigning multiple aliases to a given function.

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Implemented in 176cd55.

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