On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 6:17 PM, Scott Kruger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 Good catch! The other thing I remember argparse not doing last time I checked, was that it could group options into sections like we want for our help. Matt > Matt >> >> We're >> here in a thread about not silently accepting options that *don't >> exist anywhere*. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their >> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their >> experiments lead. >> -- Norbert Wiener >> >> https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ <http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/> >> > > -- > Tech-X Corporation [email protected] > 5621 Arapahoe Ave, Suite A Phone: (720) 974-1841 > Boulder, CO 80303 Fax: (303) 448-7756 > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ <http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/>
