Hi David.
Your suggestion seems sensible, good even. (To me at least. 🙂)
If you'd be happy to do the work for it then a Trac ticket + PR would be
the way to go.
(Assuming there are no objections.)
Kind Regards,
Carlton
On Friday, 6 April 2018 01:24:12 UTC+2, David Foster wrote:
>
> Currently if you run a custom management command with --help, you will get
> output that looks like:
>
> $ python3 manage.py import_layout_calendar --help
>
> usage: manage.py import_layout_calendar [-h] [--version] [-v {0,1,2,3}]
>
> [--settings SETTINGS]
>
> [--pythonpath PYTHONPATH]
>
> [--traceback] [--no-color]
>
> [--simulate] [--no-strict]
> [--debug]
>
> [--replace] [--fast-validate]
>
> [args [args ...]]
>
>
> Imports the calendar for a layout in the database.
>
>
> positional arguments:
>
> args
>
>
> optional arguments:
>
> -h, --help show this help message and exit
>
> --version show program's version number and exit
>
> -v {0,1,2,3}, --verbosity {0,1,2,3}
>
> Verbosity level; 0=minimal output, 1=normal
> output,
>
> 2=verbose output, 3=very verbose output
>
> --settings SETTINGS The Python path to a settings module, e.g.
>
> "myproject.settings.main". If this isn't
> provided, the
>
> DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable will
> be
>
> used.
>
> --pythonpath PYTHONPATH
>
> A directory to add to the Python path, e.g.
>
> "/home/djangoprojects/myproject".
>
> --traceback Raise on CommandError exceptions
>
> --no-color Don't colorize the command output.
>
> --simulate Suppress all database modifications
>
> --no-strict, -S Do not promote all warnings to errors
>
> --debug Perform all validating and importing live, without
>
> capturing output
>
> --replace Delete the current layout overlay before
> importing.
>
> --fast-validate Disables full simulated import as part of
> validation
>
> I have highlighted in yellow the useful information specific to the
> command that is *not* boilerplate. Notice that most of this yellow text is
> at the end of the output, with the boilerplate dominating what the user
> reads first.
>
> I propose reordering the options in the output so that the useful
> information is at the *beginning* rather than the end, so that it looks
> more like the following:
>
> $ python3 manage.py import_layout_calendar --help
>
> usage: manage.py import_layout_calendar [-h] [--simulate] [--no-strict]
>
> [--debug] [--replace]
>
> [--fast-validate] [--version]
>
> [-v {0,1,2,3}] [--settings
> SETTINGS]
>
> [--pythonpath PYTHONPATH]
>
> [--traceback] [--no-color]
>
> [args [args ...]]
>
>
> Imports the calendar for a layout in the database.
>
>
> positional arguments:
>
> args <layout_id> | <layout_filepath>
> <layout_day_duration>
>
>
> optional arguments:
>
> -h, --help show this help message and exit
>
> --simulate Suppress all database modifications
>
> --no-strict, -S Do not promote all warnings to errors
>
> --debug Perform all validating and importing live, without
>
> capturing output
>
> --replace Delete the current layout overlay before
> importing.
>
> --fast-validate Disables full simulated import as part of
> validation
>
> --version show program's version number and exit
>
> -v {0,1,2,3}, --verbosity {0,1,2,3}
>
> Verbosity level; 0=minimal output, 1=normal
> output,
>
> 2=verbose output, 3=very verbose output
>
> --settings SETTINGS The Python path to a settings module, e.g.
>
> "myproject.settings.main". If this isn't
> provided, the
>
> DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable will
> be
>
> used.
>
> --pythonpath PYTHONPATH
>
> A directory to add to the Python path, e.g.
>
> "/home/djangoprojects/myproject".
>
> --traceback Raise on CommandError exceptions
>
> --no-color Don't colorize the command output.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> David Foster | Seattle, WA, USA
>
>
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers.
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/658e0ea7-f226-4de0-b90c-3631d0e4a4ef%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
