Steven Bethard wrote:
[snip...]
I'd be much more interested in Guido's suggestion of auto-generated custom
help messages for sub-commands.
Maybe I misunderstood, but I think this is already the default
argparse behavior, no?
Cool. I didn't realise that help for subcommands was already
implemented. :-)
Michael
import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--foo')
subparsers = parser.add_subparsers()
parser1 = subparsers.add_parser('1')
parser1.add_argument('--bar')
parser2 = subparsers.add_parser('2')
parser2.add_argument('baz')
parser.parse_args(['--help'])
import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--foo')
subparsers = parser.add_subparsers()
parser1 = subparsers.add_parser('1')
parser1.add_argument('--bar')
parser2 = subparsers.add_parser('2')
parser2.add_argument('baz')
# top level argument help
parser.parse_args(['--help'])
usage: [-h] [--foo FOO] {1,2} ...
positional arguments:
{1,2}
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--foo FOO
# help for subparser 1
parser.parse_args(['1', '--help'])
usage: 1 [-h] [--bar BAR]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--bar BAR
# help for subparser 2
parser.parse_args(['2', '--help'])
usage: 2 [-h] baz
positional arguments:
baz
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
Steve
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