[issue30272] distutils.version.LooseVersion's compare raises exception in corner-case

2017-05-04 Thread Oliver Smith
Changes by Oliver Smith : -- components: +Distutils nosy: +dstufft, merwok type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue30272> ___ ___ Py

[issue30272] distutils.version.LooseVersion's compare raises exception in corner-case

2017-05-04 Thread Oliver Smith
New submission from Oliver Smith: This should return True and not raise an exception: >>> from distutils.version import LooseVersion >>> LooseVersion("22.7-r1") < LooseVersion("22.7.3-r1") Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1,

[issue9694] argparse required arguments displayed under "optional arguments"

2014-09-02 Thread Oliver Smith
Oliver Smith added the comment: The term "optional arguments" is a poorly formed adjectival suffix of "option". What it's trying to say is "these are kwargs" rather than "these arguments are not compulsory". I ran into this issue with 3.4 and was