Partial command names

[neithere]

..like in Mercurial:

#!bash
$ hg sta
$ hg status

This doesn't seem to be available in argparse in any form.

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[neithere]

Related: http://bugs.python.org/issue4256

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[neithere]

Probably related to <<issue 2>> (autocompletion) and [[http://code.google.com/p/argparse/issues/detail?id=55|argparse issue #55]]

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[neithere]

Hm, "on hold" hides the issue so that new users will submit duplicates.

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[neithere]

Works for options out of the box: --foo = --fo = --f, see argparse docs.

Doesn't work for positional arguments.

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[neithere]

There's Python ticket #12713 with a patch. Still not closed (tests need improvement).

The patch is small so it may be worth it to include something in that vein in Argh until the patch is finally shipped with Python (several years later?).

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