paul j3 added the comment: In the patch I just posted to http://bugs.python.org/issue16468 I address this long list issue in several ways:
In the Usage line, the metavar gives the user an alternative In the expanded help line the user can just omit the '%(choices)s' In _check_value(), I implemented a numpy like summarize format for choice lists longer than 15 '{1,2,3,...,18,19}'. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16418> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com