On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Tobias Herp <bruno-der-fragwuerd...@arcor.de> wrote: > Hi, all, > > I notice that Python 2.7 beta 1 now contains the argparse module, which > might be a good thing. The code has been cleaned up, too. > > But there is still one issue with argparse: > Completely unnecessarily, the 'version' constructor argument is now > deprecated. This fact doesn't solve any problem I can think of; the > only effect is to make programming more cumbersome, and it is /one more/ > difference to optparse. <snip> > *Before Python 2.7 getting a production release*, IMNSHO the following > changes should be applied to argparse.py: > > - removal of the deprecation warnings > - removal of the default usage of '-v' > with the version information facility > > This is a very simple thing to do; I'd happily provide a patch. > > Just for the records, this is what optparse does: > - it defines -h and --help for the help (unless suppressed) > - it defines --version for the version (if version argument given) > This is how it should be. > This is how the vast majority of *x tools looks like. > (well, some use '-h' for something like "host" or "human readable"; > but just a few strange misfits use -v instead of -V for the version.) > No reason to change this behaviour. > > What do you think?
You'd probably ought to just complain upstream to the argparse project itself. The change doesn't seem to have been made specifically for std lib inclusion (though I didn't read the bug in depth). This looks like the relevant issue: http://code.google.com/p/argparse/issues/detail?id=43 Relevant revision: http://code.google.com/p/argparse/source/detail?r=83 Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
