Martin d'Anjou added the comment: How about calling required arguments "required arguments"?
required arguments: --reqarg REQARG, -r REQARG This is required optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --optarg OPTARG, -o OPTARG This is optional Clear and unambiguous. With this approach the user does not have to bloat the help to state "This is required". We're having the same discussion over at github regarding argparse4j: https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/argparse4j/issues/26#issuecomment-32894297 ---------- nosy: +Martin.d'Anjou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9694> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com