Andy Buckley a...@insectnation.org added the comment:
The backward compatible solution is to have --help-options disabled by
default, and ask people to enable it with add_interface=True.
Or to add the option just before arg parsing, if it has not already been
defined?
Thanks for the
R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
I prefer an approach that allows this option to be defined by default, since if
it is not defined by default it defeats part of the purpose of having the
option. The program author may not be concerned with completions (or even know
R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
Removing 2.7 since it is now in feature freeze.
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Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Andy Buckley rep...@bugs.python.org wrote:
Or to add the option just before arg parsing, if it has not already been
defined?
Something like this was suggested before and it doesn't really work
out
Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment:
Thanks for the patch! One concern I have is that adding --help-options by
default has the potential to break existing code, e.g. if someone using
optparse or argparse was already defining their own --help-options flag. The
backward
Filip Gruszczyński grusz...@gmail.com added the comment:
Patch for optparse with tests. If it's ok, I'll sit down to argparse.
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Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment:
Sorry, what does I'll sit down to mean? Does that mean you're offering to try
to do the argparse patch too? Or that you'd rather someone else do it? (Either
one's fine - I just couldn't tell which you meant.)
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Filip Gruszczyński grusz...@gmail.com added the comment:
I guess I am using my English too little, that's why I am using polish
expressions too often. What I meant was of course, that I will do argparse
patch too.
I haven't provided docs for --help-options yet, becuase it is not clear to me,
Filip Gruszczyński grusz...@gmail.com added the comment:
Ok, here comes patch for argparse too.
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Andy Buckley a...@insectnation.org added the comment:
Thanks for the pointers to both of these... I wasn't aware of either. I see
argparse has been recently approved for Python stdlib inclusion, too:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0389/ Congratulations!
As far as I can tell, genzshcomp is
Andy Buckley a...@insectnation.org added the comment:
That sort of idea, yes: just a wild thought, but it would be really nice if
this was available so that in combination with a standard bash/zsh function,
getting basic automatic command completion for scripts built with optparse (and
any
Filip Gruszczyński grusz...@gmail.com added the comment:
I'll take a look at optparse code and try to provide a patch. But first
holidays must finish and I must come back to ma usual residence, where I have
programming environment.
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R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
Please target argparse rather than optparse, or better yet in addition to
optparse. And I'm +1 for making it easier to write completion scripts.
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Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment:
Someone pointed this out to me earlier:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/genzshcomp
I believe it's trying to solve the same problem, and claims to work with both
optparse and argparse, so it might be worth looking into what it's doing and
Filip Gruszczyński grusz...@gmail.com added the comment:
Are you saying, that for example for this:
grusz...@gruszczy-laptop:~/Programs/logbuilder$ ./logbuilder --help
Usage: logbuilder [options] repo
Options:
--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help
Changes by Daniel Diniz aja...@gmail.com:
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New submission from Andy Buckley [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
optparse is a great option parser, but one thing that would make it even
greater would be if it provided a standard option (cf. --help) which
lists all the available options in a parseable form. Something prefixed
with --help, e.g.
Changes by Winfried Plappert [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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