On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Dolph Mathews <dolph.math...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I find this behavior really annoying... --help should be contextual
> (depending on whether a subcommand is present, and what it is).

> I hope not... +1 for argparse.

Actually, argparse is one reason for this behaviour.  It doesn't like
duplicated options in subparsers, nor subsets of names like we found
in keystone with --tenant and --tenant_id, etc.  IIRC none of the
existing clients do that, they all rely on 'help command' to get
command-specific help.

dt

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Dean Troyer
dtro...@gmail.com

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