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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Apr 19 04:19:46 CEST 2010

On Apr 18, 2010, at 07:30 PM, Eric Smith wrote:

Steven Bethard wrote:

By the way, we could simplify the typical addargument usage by adding "show program's version number and exit" as the default help for the 'version' action. Then you should just write:

parser.addargument('--version', action='version', version='') I like this the best. I don't like argparse adding arguments for me.

I concur. This gives me all the flexibility I need to make my programs accept exactly the arguments I want and print exactly the information I want to present.

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