On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:07:45 -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > While we're making suggestions, I've always wished that the --help > output displayed the default values for options in addition to the help > text specified by the user. I end up having to enter the default values > twice -- once as a keyword argument and again in the help text.
'%default' in the help text will be replaced by the default value. See the last option in the first example here: http://docs.python.org/lib/optparse-generating-help.html Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
