[issue9652] Tidy argparse default output

2010-08-27 Thread Tom Browder
Tom Browder added the comment: ... > Should this be closed in favor of #9694? (Or vice versa?). Perhaps one of the > issues should be renamed something like "Improve argparse message > customization". That sounds like a winner to me -Tom -- title: Enhance argparse help output custom

[issue9652] Tidy argparse default output

2010-08-27 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: 2.7 is closed to new features and I cannot see making a non-bug change in a maintenance release that could break something. Should this be closed in favor of #9694? (Or vice versa?). Perhaps one of the issues should be renamed something like "Improve argparse

[issue9652] Tidy argparse default output

2010-08-27 Thread Steven Bethard
Steven Bethard added the comment: Looks like "usage" is almost always lowercase in the programs I tried (ssh, svn, cat, etc.). So it probably wouldn't be a good idea to change the default. Seems like both this and issue 9694 need a better way to customize the text in argparse mesages. As a t

[issue9652] Tidy argparse default output

2010-08-27 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue9652] Tidy argparse default output

2010-08-20 Thread Tom Browder
New submission from Tom Browder : I would like to be able to change argparse default strings so the first word is capitalized. In lieu of that, I propose the attached patch to 2.7 which changes them in the source code. -- components: Library (Lib) files: python-v2.7-argparser-patch.tx