[issue9652] Tidy argparse default output

2010-08-27 Thread R. David Murray
Changes by R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com: -- nosy: +bethard ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9652 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue9652] Tidy argparse default output

2010-08-27 Thread Steven Bethard
Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment: Looks like usage is almost always lowercase in the programs I tried (ssh, svn, cat, etc.). So it probably wouldn't be a good idea to change the default. Seems like both this and issue 9694 need a better way to customize the text in

[issue9652] Tidy argparse default output

2010-08-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: 2.7 is closed to new features and I cannot see making a non-bug change in a maintenance release that could break something. Should this be closed in favor of #9694? (Or vice versa?). Perhaps one of the issues should be renamed something like

[issue9652] Tidy argparse default output

2010-08-27 Thread Tom Browder
Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com added the comment: ... Should this be closed in favor of #9694? (Or vice versa?). Perhaps one of the issues should be renamed something like Improve argparse message customization. That sounds like a winner to me -Tom -- title: Enhance argparse

[issue9652] Tidy argparse default output

2010-08-20 Thread Tom Browder
New submission from Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com: I would like to be able to change argparse default strings so the first word is capitalized. In lieu of that, I propose the attached patch to 2.7 which changes them in the source code. -- components: Library (Lib) files: