[Python-Dev] PEP 389: argparse - new command line parsing module (original) (raw)

m h sesquile at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 22:38:23 CEST 2009

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

2009/9/28 Yuvgoog Greenle <ubershmekel at gmail.com>:

1. There is no chance of the script killing itself. In argparse and optparse exit() is called on every parsing error (btw because of this it sucks to debug parseargs in an interpreter). That one does worry me. I'd rather argparse (or any library function) didn't call sys.exit on my behalf - it should raise an exception. Is it actually true that argparse exits? (I can imagine that it might if --help was specified, for example. An exception may not be right here, but I still don't like the idea of a straight exit - I've used too many C libraries that think they know when I want to exit).

+1

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