Nick Coghlan wrote: > Tobias Herp wrote: >> No deprecation or removal of the simple and convenient 'version' >> argument is needed for this. Just omit it, and build your version >> action yourself. But please notice that there are others who appreciate >> this simple way to do it and don't need more. > > One Obvious Way. > > In this case, the ambiguity of the "version=" argument is sufficient to > elevate it to the level of "attractive nuisance" (particularly given the > legacy behaviour of conflicting with typical verbosity options). The > default help for the action needs to be fixed, and there are a couple of > documentation tweaks to be made, but Steven's decision to remove the > feature has a sound rationale.
Exactly my feelings. IMO, straight removal would be fine as well, but a deprecation may be more user-friendly, wrt. the existing code base. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
