Message 183725 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

• parser.add_argument('--gz', '--gunzip', '--gzip', '--tgz', '-z',

•                    '--ungzip', action = 'store_true', 

•                    help = 'gz compression')

• parser.add_argument('--bz2', '--bzip2', '--tbz2', '--tbz', '-- tb2',

•                    action = 'store_true', help = 'bz2 compression')

• parser.add_argument('--xz', '--lzma', action = 'store_true',

•                    help = 'xz compression')

Do we really need so much names for the same option? Where do these > names come from?

I was trying to implement all the formats mentioned in Serhiy's review. (and also different names for the same format)