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

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Mon Apr 19 05:34:51 CEST 2010

Cameron Simpson wrote:

On 18Apr2010 22:52, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: | 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.

My view is the same.

I don't expect -v to be one or the other, and I certainly don't expect the rest of the world to want to confirm to what the Python community decides.

regards Steve

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