Whether we can add a default argument for FLAGS?

[lanlin]

In my case, I only use absl.flags to parse command line parameters. So, I have to manually pass sys.argv to FLAGS. Can we set a default argument when calling FLAGS? Or, does a default value have some drawbacks?

# Now:
import sys
from absl import flags

FLAGS = flags.FLAGS
FLAGS(sys.argv)

# If we can:
from absl import flags

FLAGS = flags.FLAGS
FLAGS()

The reason why I want this feature is that I'm used to parsing with argparse as follows:

import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.parse_args()

[Yilei Yang]

We used to have FLAGS() mean parsing nothing, that has been fixed since there were many misuses of the call.

After that, I don't see a technical reason why it can't use sys.argv as the default if omitted.

However, I'd still prefer explicitness as passing sys.argv is more clear to the reader, especially people who's less familiar with absl.flags (prefer optimizing readability over writability too).

[lanlin]

Thanks for your response.