[Python-Dev] Python 2.7b1 and argparse's version action (original) (raw)
Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Mon Apr 19 20:24:59 CEST 2010
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I'm with Martin; just let it be explicit and stick an example in the docs.
-Brett (from his phone with hopefully only one copy sent of this email)
On Apr 18, 2010 9:22 PM, Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
- many optparse programs use the version argument - many other programmers find this feature ver... You actually brought up a good reason yourself:
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. If you ask "give me a version argument", the question is "how is it spelled?". IIUC, you originally complained that the spelling of argparse (i.e. -v/--version) is not good, and that a different spelling should be used. So it's ambiguous, in which case the feature shouldn't be provided in the first place.
Regards, Martin
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