Steven Bethard <steven.beth...@gmail.com> added the comment: 2010/4/21 Filip Gruszczyński <rep...@bugs.python.org>: > I don't really understand, why can't we just check if > help-options is provided by the user and add our own, > if it is not?
I'm sure it would be possible to do it this way. The question is whether it makes sense to from the perspectives of code maintainability and explaining awkward corner cases to users. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:29 PM, R. David Murray wrote: > I don't see why --help-options would need to be listed in help. Right. For argparse, suppressing the printing of --help-options in the help message is as simple as setting help=SUPPRESS. > We could pick a more obscure name, too. I think this is probably the best way forward. What is the format that's being printed out? Is this a standard somewhere? Can we name the flag something like "--print-parser-options-in-XXX-format"? Steve ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4256> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com