Preferring dash over underscore in command-line options. Add `--command-arg-name` to the argument parser. The old arguments with underscores `--command_arg_name` are kept for backward compatibility.
Both dashes and underscores are used in the PyTorch codebase. Some argument parsers only have dashes or only have underscores in arguments. For example, the `torchrun` utility for distributed training only accepts underscore arguments (e.g., `--master_port`). The dashes are more common in other command-line tools. And it looks to be the default choice in the Python standard library:
`argparse.BooleanOptionalAction`: 4a9dff0e5a/Lib/argparse.py (L893-L895)
```python
class BooleanOptionalAction(Action):
def __init__(...):
if option_string.startswith('--'):
option_string = '--no-' + option_string[2:]
_option_strings.append(option_string)
```
It adds `--no-argname`, not `--no_argname`. Also typing `_` need to press the shift or the caps-lock key than `-`.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/94505
Approved by: https://github.com/ezyang, https://github.com/seemethere
a229b4526f