On 3/2/18 12:44 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Matthew Knepley <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> writes:
> That is not the same as printing unused arguments. Michael's Pythia
> does this correctly, but it is even less simple.
You want it to accept the unused arguments and just print them without
error, or some more subtle relationship among dependent options?
Yes, I do. I consider PETSc to have the correct functionality. The open
world
assumption is a good one, as long as you report that no one accepted
that option.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#partial-parsing
Requires Python > 2.7
Matt
We're
here in a thread about not silently accepting options that *don't
exist anywhere*.
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