paul j3 added the comment: Yes, the information that `add_argument` returns a Action object is missing from the documentation. It might be useful addition.
The documentation has many faults. It isn't basic enough to be a tutorial, but many first time users use it as such, and get confused by its complexity. But it also is not a formal reference document. And the automatic 'help(argparse)' isn't much better. A regular user does not need to use the Action object directly. But as a developer I often test argparse in an interactive shell (IPython), and the 'out' line shows a 'str' of the object (as a summary of its attributes). So assigning that object to a variable is just as natural to me as saving the parser object returned by argparse.ArgumentParser, or the group object returned by parser.add_argument_group. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25035> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
