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[Python-Dev] Python 2.7b1 and argparse's version action

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 01:22:12 CEST 2010 
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Steven Bethard wrote:
>> By the way, we could simplify the typical add_argument usage by adding
>> "show program's version number and exit" as the default help for the
>> 'version' action. Then you should just write:
>>
>>     parser.add_argument('--version', action='version', version='<the version>')
>
> With that change, I would have no problem with the current argparse
> behaviour (since doing it this way makes it very easy for people to add
> a "-V" shortcut if they want one).

Probably this should happen regardless of the outcome of the
constructor argument. The only reason it wasn't already there is that
I hadn't thought of it. ;-)

Steve
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