Dear Peter, and Steven, thanks again for engaging with my script. I'm fully aware that this is not the tutor mailing list :)
Peter Otten wrote: > As far as I can see in a correctly written script the AttributeError cannot > be triggered by the user as argparse handles this case automatically by > showing the help. This... is true. I could have sworn that's not the way argparse behaved when I wrote that snippet, but I've been very wrong before about similar things. Anyway my main() function looks much better now :) > By the way, I recommend coverage.py to find dead code. I have not used > it for too long, and I regret it ;) I blush to confess I would first need to write a test suite. But yeah, will do both, thanks for the recommendation. Cheers, Manolo -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list