New submission from Andy Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: optparse is a great option parser, but one thing that would make it even greater would be if it provided a standard option (cf. --help) which lists all the available options in a parseable form. Something prefixed with --help, e.g. --help-options would be ideal since it doesn't clutter the option namespace.
This would provide a simple command-line hook for e.g. bash completion customisation with complete/compgen, which could then easily and maintainably obtain the list of available switches via the --help-options flag rather than hard-coding the option names or attempting to grep the output of --help It would also be good if the OptionParser provided a simple Python API way to obtain the names of all option switches, rather than having to loop over OptionGroups, calling the unadvertised 'option_list' and 'get_option_name' methods! ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 75469 nosy: andybuckley severity: normal status: open title: optparse: provide a simple way to get a programmatically useful list of options type: feature request versions: Python 2.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4256> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
