On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 2:26 PM <jf...@ms4.hinet.net> wrote: > > The codes in test.py are: > --------- > import argparse > parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() > parser.add_argument('--foo', nargs='?', help='foo help') > parser.add_argument('--goo', nargs=1, help='goo help') > args = parser.parse_args() > print(args.foo, args.goo) > --------- > > But I get the following result: > --------- > D:\Works\Python>py test.py -h > usage: test.py [-h] [--foo [FOO]] [--goo GOO] > > optional arguments: > -h, --help show this help message and exit > --foo [FOO] foo help > --goo GOO goo help > > D:\Works\Python>py test.py --foo 1 --goo 2 > 1 ['2'] > --------- > > It seems to me that the help message should be: > usage: test.py [-h] [--foo FOO] [--goo [GOO]] > > Do I had missed something? >
Can you elaborate on why you expect this? You've declared one of them to have a single mandatory argument, and the other a single optional argument. This corresponds to what I'm seeing. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list