Allow to skip a field registration

[Conchylicultor]

In the dataclass, it is possible to have field which should not be exposed in the CLI. It would be nice to have a way to skip registering those flags:

@dataclass
class A:
  x: int
  y: int = simple_parsing.field(register=False)

Then --x would be detected, but not --y:

my_program --x=1  # Works
my_program --y=1  # Error: Unknown FLAG --y

[zhiruiluo]

The dataclasses.field(init=False) would do the thing. If you use that and wanna init this field, you could still initialize it in __post_int__ function.

[lebrice]

Hello @Conchylicultor !

Yes there is something like this, you can use simple_parsing.field(cmd=False).

Hope this helps!

[lebrice]

I'll close this if that's alright with you. LMK if you have any other questions @Conchylicultor .

Thanks again for posting!

[Conchylicultor]

Awesome! Thank you for the quick answer