Re: Challenging argparse with keyword dest="class"

Chris Angelico via Python-list <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:53:38 +1100

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On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 at 20:40, Schimon Jehudah via Python-list
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> (Pdb) args.class
> *** SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> (Pdb)
>

You can use getattr(args, "class") if you like (this works for all
objects). But it's probably easier to dodge the issue by changing the
spelling of the destination.

ChrisA