[issue13685] argparse does not sanitize help strings for % signs

2012-01-10 Thread Steven Bethard
Steven Bethard added the comment: Eric's suggested doc fix looks good to me. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing l

[issue13685] argparse does not sanitize help strings for % signs

2012-01-06 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- nosy: +bethard ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.pytho

[issue13685] argparse does not sanitize help strings for % signs

2012-01-03 Thread Jeff Yurkiw
Jeff Yurkiw added the comment: That would probably work too. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue13685] argparse does not sanitize help strings for % signs

2012-01-02 Thread Eric V. Smith
Eric V. Smith added the comment: In case I wasn't clear, I mean that the help string supports %-formatting variable expansion, such as "%(default)s". I think it would be good if a sentence were added to the end of the "help" section, saying something like: Because the help string supports %-f

[issue13685] argparse does not sanitize help strings for % signs

2011-12-30 Thread Eric V. Smith
Eric V. Smith added the comment: This is because the help text support substitution, as mentioned here: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html#help It's possible this documentation could be improved. -- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -None nosy: +docs@p

[issue13685] argparse does not sanitize help strings for % signs

2011-12-30 Thread Jeff Yurkiw
New submission from Jeff Yurkiw : I discovered this while programming the command line interface for a python program that can take a passed argument and throw it into the 'where like' clause of a SQL expression (intended for a postgresql database). The wildcard character for where-like statem