[issue28220] argparse's add_mutually_exclusive_group() should accept title and description

Berker Peksag added the comment: Unless I'm missing something, this is a duplicate of issue 17218 :) -- nosy: +berker.peksag resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> support title and description in argparse add_mutually_exclusive_group

[issue28220] argparse's add_mutually_exclusive_group() should accept title and description

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: The workaround is to do something like: group = parser.add_argument_group(title, description) me_group = group.add_mutually_exclusive_group() me_group.add_argument(...blah blah blah...) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue28220] argparse's add_mutually_exclusive_group() should accept title and description

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: Hmm, it might be more complicated than that, so let's ignore 3.6 -- versions: -Python 3.6 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue28220] argparse's add_mutually_exclusive_group() should accept title and description

New submission from Barry A. Warsaw: I'd love to sneak this into 3.6, but I can accept being too late. In any case, _MutuallyExclusiveGroup.__init__() should accept title and description arguments and pass them to the super class. Otherwise, you can't great a mutually exclusive group that