New submission from Peter Williams <pwil3...@bigpond.net.au>: At present, if a number (e.g. 2) of optional positional arguments are defined (e.g. arg1 and arg2) argparse formats them as follows:
usage: program [arg1] [arg2] in the usage message. I would like to suggest that a better format would be: usage: program [arg1 [arg2]] as this more accurately reflects the way argparse treats them during parsing of the command line. This formatting would be consistent with the way argparse currently formats a single optional positional argument with nargs='*', namely: usage: program [arg [arg ...]] ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 132462 nosy: pwil3058 priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: argparse: suggestion for formatting optional positional args type: feature request versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11708> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
