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

Tobias Herp Tobias.Herp at gmx.de
Wed Apr 21 00:34:10 CEST 2010 
Nick Coghlan schrieb:
> Tobias Herp wrote:
>> No deprecation or removal of the simple and convenient 'version'
>> argument is needed for this.  Just omit it, and build your version
>> action yourself.  But please notice that there are others who appreciate
>> this simple way to do it and don't need more.
> 
> One Obvious Way.

One /Obvious/ Way!

To simply check off the "give the program a version" task, /this/ (the
version argument) is the way to do it (obvious enough for legions of
programmers who are able to use optparse).  If you need a more fancy
version action, of course, you need to take care of that yourself.

> In this case, the ambiguity of the "version=" argument ...

What /is/ this ambiguity of the "version=" argument? There is none!

Do it the way optparse does it, and all is fine!

-- 
Tobias
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