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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Sep 30 02:38:26 CEST 2009


Paul Moore wrote:

I'd rather argparse (or any library function) didn't call sys.exit on my behalf - it should raise an exception.

Actually, sys.exit() does raise an exception (i.e. SystemExit) that you can catch if you want.

-- Greg



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