Question

I am trying to use ArgumentParser.set_defaults from argparse. I want a keyworded tuple like this: parser.set_defaults(bar=42, baz='badger')

I have the item from the output of ConfigParser.items which is: ('baz','badger').

How do I convert this into the keyworded tuple that set_defaults is expecting?

Answer 1

If you have a list [(key, value), (key, value), ...], you can turn it into a dict with that_dict = dict(that_list). Then you can unpack it into set_defaults, i.e. parser.set_default(**that_dict).