Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment:
I'm moving this over to Issue 11695, which proposes support for a usage/help
message template.
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resolution: - duplicate
stage: - committed/rejected
status: open - closed
superseder: - Improve argparse usage/help
Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment:
In argparse, you could so something like:
version = 2.7
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description=My program XXX, version + version)
parser.add_argument('-v', action='version', version=version)
That would then produce:
usage:
anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com added the comment:
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Steven Bethard rep...@bugs.python.org wrote:
I see though that vi puts the full name and version before the usage (which
is currently impossible in argparse):
That was exactly my use case, which I'd
anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com added the comment:
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Steven Bethard rep...@bugs.python.org wrote:
I guess we could add, say, a headline= option to ArgumentParser which would
then be printed before the usage message if it's really crucial to have that
Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment:
I'm not sure about the usage_template approach - seems like it might be hard to
make it work, while still supporting formatter_class. (Though maybe it's not so
bad since the formatter class methods are all considered implementation
Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com added the comment:
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:14 PM, anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com wrote:
A pity that before argparse replaced optparse, there was no research
made to gather the output from various console tools to see how
argparse really saves people
anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com added the comment:
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Steven Bethard rep...@bugs.python.org wrote:
I'm not sure about the usage_template approach - seems like it might be hard
to make it work, while still supporting formatter_class. (Though maybe it's
Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org:
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nosy: +bethard -aronacher
resolution: wont fix -
stage: committed/rejected -
title: optparse - display version in usage by default - argparse - display
version in usage by default
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