[issue14034] the example in argparse doc is too complex

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[issue14034] the example in argparse doc is too complex

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe added the comment: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 19:03, Éric Araujo wrote: > > Éric Araujo added the comment: > > I really don’t think there was any willingness to “show off”, and wouldn’t be > surprised if the doc was written optparse users.  It’s just an accident of > histor

[issue14034] the example in argparse doc is too complex

Éric Araujo added the comment: I really don’t think there was any willingness to “show off”, and wouldn’t be surprised if the doc was written optparse users. It’s just an accident of history, and we can try to make it better instead of calling people names :) Do you have a wording idea for a

[issue14034] the example in argparse doc is too complex

New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe : The argparse example (http://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html#example) introduces way too many concepts too early. It's written as if targeted to existing users of optparse, instead of newcomers to Python's CLI handling. Perhaps the example c