Message 89279 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

It's unfortunate (at least to me, but I know I have a skewed view of this) that the help string in add_argument uses %-formatting when formatting the result. I'd much rather it use str.format().

I see a couple of options:

• leave it as-is and live with %-formatting forever
• add a different, mutually exclusive parameter, like help_ex or help_str
• try to guess whether to use %-formatting or str.format, based on inspecting the help string

I'm not really wild about any of these.

I'm still looking through the code, slowly.