[Python-Dev] Python 2.7b1 and argparse's version action (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Apr 19 00:52:12 CEST 2010

Steven Bethard <steven.bethard gmail.com> writes:

I need to a see a consensus from a variety of developers that "--version" is the right answer, and not "-V/--version", etc.

Both are ok for me. "-v" as a shortcut for "--version" looks wrong, though. "-v" is almost always used for verbosity these days.

Note that even though I agree with you that "-v/--version" is probably not the best choice, in the poll[2] 11% of people still wanted this.

This strikes me as a small minority.

Regards

Antoine.