Issue 5190: optparse doex not export make_option (original) (raw)

The documentation of optparse mentions make_option() as the standard way to create an option list:

For example, in the doc of python 2.5:

==== 14.3.3.2 Populating the parser

[...] pass it an Option instance (as returned by make_option())

[...]

option_list = [ make_option("-f", "--filename", action="store", type="string", dest="filename"), make_option("-q", "--quiet", action="store_false", dest="verbose"), ]

(make_option() is a factory function for creating Option instances; currently it is an alias for the Option constructor. A future version of optparse may split Option into several classes, and make_option() will pick the right class to instantiate. Do not instantiate Option directly.)

However, make_option is not part of the function exported in the all list of optparse. Strangely enough, this does not prevent to use make_option() in regular python scripts, but it does not work when packaging a python application, for example with pyinstaller.

The problem is also present in python 2.6

The fix is either to update the documentation to use Option() directly or to add make_option to all