New submission from Christoph Anton Mitterer <cales...@scientia.org>:
Hey.
AFAIU, the sole purpose of ArgumentParser.add_argument_group() is for the
grouping within the help output.
It would be nice, if one could create a mutually exclusive group (with
ArgumentParser.add_mutually_exclusive_group) from/within such a "normal" group,
so that the mutually exclusive arguments are listed within the group, but are
still, mutually exclusive.
Right now when doing something like:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser_group = parser.add_argument_group("INPUT OPTIONS")
parser_group_mutually_exclusive =
parser_group.add_mutually_exclusive_group(required=False)
parser_group_mutually_exclusive.add_argument("--from-args")
parser_group_mutually_exclusive.add_argument("--from-files")
parser_group_mutually_exclusive.add_argument("--from-stdin")
parser_group.add_argument("-0", help="null delimited pathnames")
it works, but the mutually exclusive options are note printed within the "INPUT
OPTIONS", but rather at the normal "optional arguments:" section of the help.
The above example also kinda shows what this could be used for:
- one might have e.g. a group for input options, and amongst that the mutually
exclusive "--from-*" which specify the source of the input.
Cheers,
Chris.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 387278
nosy: calestyo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: argparse: allow add_mutually_exclusive_group on add_argument_group
type: enhancement
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