In article <mailman.128.1467893565.2295.python-l...@python.org>, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >Yes, it's a third-party dependency. (Sorry, should have mentioned >that.) You're welcome to consider that to be too much risk and/or >hassle to be worth improving on getopt, but personally, I *really* >like the simplicity of just writing docstrings that still read >perfectly well as docstrings, and having them create my argparse >configs for me. Different strokes for different horses, or something >like that.
Well, parsing the arguments was not really the problem in my case. But after parsing I had to look at valid combinations and show helpfull messages if required information is missing or conflicting options were given. I doubt if an extra abstraction layer would have helped me. It did make my typo a bit hard to catch, though... -- [J|O|R] <- .signature.gz -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
