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:
I see. When there are no arguments you basically want to replace the standard
argparse help entirely with your own message, with your own capitalization,
etc. What you're doing now looks like a pretty good approach for this, so I
Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com added the comment:
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I see. When there are no arguments you basically want to replace the standard
argparse help entirely with your own message, with your own capitalization,
etc.
What you're doing now looks like a pretty good approach for this, so
I
Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com added the comment:
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 17:06, Steven Bethard rep...@bugs.python.org wrote:
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import argparse
import sys
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--foo')
if len(sys.argv) == 1:
parser.print_help()
else:
Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com added the comment:
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 16:01, Steven Bethard rep...@bugs.python.org wrote:
Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment:
A simpler approach might be to do this before your call to parse_args:
if len(sys.argv[0]) == 1:
Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment:
A simpler approach might be to do this before your call to parse_args:
if len(sys.argv[0]) == 1:
parser.print_help()
Does that solve your problem?
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Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment:
Sorry, typo. Should have been len(sys.argv) == 1. Full script:
import argparse
import sys
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--foo')
if len(sys.argv) == 1:
parser.print_help()
else:
New submission from Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com:
When I use the argparse module, and I enter my program name with NO arguments
or options, I would like the argparser to output something like:
Usage: program name [options]
Use option '-h' for help.
I haven't yet found how to do that in
Changes by Benjamin Peterson benja...@python.org:
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nosy: +bethard
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