On 06/27/2013 03:49 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[rant] I think it is lousy design for a framework like argparse to raise a custom ArgumentError in one part of the code, only to catch it elsewhere and call sys.exit. At the very least, that ought to be a config option, and off by default. Libraries should not call sys.exit, or raise SystemExit. Whether to quit or not is not the library's decision to make, that decision belongs to the application layer. Yes, the application could always catch SystemExit, but it shouldn't have to.
So a library that is explicitly designed to make command-line scripts easier and friendlier should quit with a traceback? Really? -- ~Ethan~ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
