Andrea Crotti wrote: > On 02/28/2012 04:02 PM, Peter Otten wrote: >> Andrea Crotti wrote: >> >>> I have a script that might be used interactively but also has some >>> arguments that >>> should not be used by "normal" users. >>> So I just want to suppress them from the help. >>> I've read somewhere that the help=SUPPRESS should do what I want: >>> >>> parser.add_argument('-n', '--test_only', >>> action='store_true', >>> help=SUPPRESS) >>> >>> but that's what I get from "myapp -h", which is not exactly what I was >>> looking for.. >>> >>> >>> -f, --first_level ==SUPPRESS== (default: False) >>> --never_redevelop ==SUPPRESS== (default: False) >>> >>> >>> Any other solutions? >> That shouldn't happen. Did you reload() somewhere? >> argparse tests object identity not equality with SUPPRESS, so you have to >> ensure that SUPPRESS stems from the same instance of the argparse module >> as your ArgumentParser. >> > > Ah great yes it wasn't actually the same.. > but why not just use > if text != SUPPRESS > instead of: > if text is not SUPPRESS
Steven Bethard would have to answer that. If it were my code I would have used the equality test, but also the correct symbolic constant... > probably the second is more safe, but they are it's still checking > against a constant that > is very unlikely to clash with anything.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list