How to use reserved keyword as the name of variable in python?

Question

I want to use reserved keyword \"from\" as the name of variable.

I have it in my arguments parser:

parser.add_argument(\"--from\")
args = parser.parse_ar         


        

Answer 1

You can use getattr() to access the attribute:

print(getattr(args, 'from'))

However, in argparse you can have the command-line option --from without having to have the attribute from by using the dest option to specify an alternative name to use:

parser.add_argument('--from', dest='from_')

# ...
args = parser.parse_args()
print(args.from_)