On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Neal Becker wrote: > I want to have subparsers, but I also want to be able to say: > > myprogram --version > and get the version # > > ---------------------------
[...] AFAIK, it is not possible ATM to have optional subparsers with argparse: http://code.google.com/p/argparse/issues/detail?id=47 To do something like what you want, I've done my own pre-parsing of the command-line to separate out sub-options, and then sent them to multiple separate top-level ArgumentParser instances. Regards, john -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
