On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/9/28 Yuvgoog Greenle <ubershme...@gmail.com>: >> 1. There is no chance of the script killing itself. In argparse and optparse >> exit() is called on every parsing error (btw because of this it sucks to >> debug parse_args in an interpreter). > > That one does worry me. I'd rather argparse (or any library function) > didn't call sys.exit on my behalf - it should raise an exception. Is > it actually true that argparse exits? (I can imagine that it might if > --help was specified, for example. An exception may not be right here, > but I still don't like the idea of a straight exit - I've used too > many C libraries that think they know when I want to exit). >
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