Message 319567 - Python tracker

Message319567

Author	bignose
Recipients	Aaron.Meurer, Daniel.Walsh, Ingo.Fischer, Oz.Tiram, Pavel Raiskup, acucci, adregner, andialbrecht, asmeurer, bethard, bignose, bochecha, dmalcolm, eric.araujo, josh.r, jwilk, louielu, matthewjohn, pablogsal, paul.j3, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, sigi, tshepang, zbysz
Date	2018-06-14.23:52:41
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On Thu, 2018-06-14 23:46 +0000, Aaron Meurer <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: > Couldn't such a tool exist outside the standard library. I've tried writing such a tool. It would ideally re-use as much as feasible of the functionality that assembles the usage message. But that is hampered by the fact the usage message generation is not easily accessible from outside. I am hoping that, in order to re-use that functionality, a common set of “take the argument collection as input, generate a document structure” functionality can be factored out for other use — initially, for generating a manual page. So this bug report asks for that work to be done in the ‘argparse’ library. > Installing the manpage is a separate concern. Yes, I agree. That is not part of this bug report.

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On Thu, 2018-06-14 23:46 +0000, Aaron Meurer <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

> Couldn't such a tool exist outside the standard library.

I've tried writing such a tool. It would ideally re-use as much as feasible of the functionality that assembles the usage message. But that is hampered by the fact the usage message generation is not easily accessible from outside.

I am hoping that, in order to re-use that functionality, a common set of “take the argument collection as input, generate a document structure” functionality can be factored out for other use — initially, for generating a manual page.

So this bug report asks for that work to be done in the ‘argparse’ library.

> Installing the manpage is a separate concern.

Yes, I agree. That is not part of this bug report.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2018-06-14 23:52:41	bignose	set	recipients: + bignose, rhettinger, bethard, jwilk, eric.araujo, zbysz, dmalcolm, Aaron.Meurer, andialbrecht, bochecha, tshepang, paul.j3, sigi, Daniel.Walsh, serhiy.storchaka, Ingo.Fischer, adregner, josh.r, Oz.Tiram, acucci, matthewjohn, louielu, pablogsal, asmeurer, Pavel Raiskup
2018-06-14 23:52:41	bignose	link	issue14102 messages
2018-06-14 23:52:41	bignose	create