Accessing C++ flags from Python

[jiawen]

This section of the guide has been "forthcoming" for some time. Is there any timeline on this?

The definition of class Flag, there appear to be some Google internals that "leak" out but are unused.

• allow_override_cpp
• allow_hide_cpp

They seem to be used in absltest.py but is otherwise not well documented.

[yilei]

Sorry we don't have a timeline.

There is some recent news though, one of the blockers were the Abseil C++ logging API. That was released this month: https://abseil.io/blog/20220908-logging

So technically we could start the (non-trivial) design work, but we haven't been able to prioritize it yet.

[rogeeff]

Is there any chance for Abseil Team of Python team to enable this for open source? This is specifically painful now that Abseil logging is released and we do not have any ability to manipulate Abseil logging flags form command line if I am driving binary from Python.