On 2021-04-19, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 2:55 AM Loris Bennett <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de> > wrote: > >> However, the options -o, -u, and -g are required, not optional. >> >> The documentation >> >> https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#required >> >> advises against required options and here >> >> >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24180527/argparse-required-arguments-listed-under-optional-arguments >> >> a way of adding a section 'required arguments' to the usage is >> described. >> > > Of _course_ some options need to be required.
Traditionally, required "things" were called arguments and were not prefixed with a hyphen. Optional "things" were called options (hence the similarity in spelling between "optional" and "option"). > I can't imagine what the author of that page was thinking. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
