Python's argparse: How to use keyword as argument's name

Question

lambda has a keyword function in Python:

f = lambda x: x**2 + 2*x - 5

What if I want to use it as a variable name? Is there an

Answer 1

There is an argparse-specific way of dealing with this. From the documentation:

If you prefer to have dict-like view of the attributes, you can use the standard Python idiom, vars().

Therefore, you should be able to write:

print vars(args)["lambda"]  # No keyword used, no syntax error.