Cheryl Sabella added the comment:
If it helps at all, I first learned about argparse a few weeks ago. I first
went to the doc page and then immediately went to the tutorial, as suggested.
I didn't find it difficult or off-putting at all. In fact, I loved that there
was a tutorial that it
Martin Panter added the comment:
The patch looks unfinished. I left some narrow nit-picky review comments, but I
haven’t really thought about the problem from a high level.
--
nosy: +martin.panter
stage: -> patch review
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7
paul j3 added the comment:
By text and location the sidebar does not apply specifically to this example.
It applies to the whole page, 'This page contains the API reference
information.'
Documentation for argparse is indeed a problem - both because of its complexity
and how it is used.
Brian Guo added the comment:
Hi,
I agree with your observation about the unnecessarily complicated
documentation. I feel that there is not a real necessity to include an example
that uses (metavar='N', nargs='+') or even (const='sum', default='max') inside
the parameters of the add_argument
New submission from Daniel Stone:
The argparse documentation starts off, after a couple of sentences, by spending
several paragraphs (and a couple of sentences) explaining this gem:
import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Process some integers.')
