[issue9343] Document that argparse "parents" must be fully declared before children
New submission from Steven Bethard steven.bethard@gmail.com:
[From http://code.google.com/p/argparse/issues/detail?id=61]
It should be documented clearly that only the arguments present on the parent parser at the time ArgumentParser is called will be included in the parser.
parent = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=False) child = argparse.ArgumentParser(parents=[parent]) parent.add_argument('--foo', action='store_true') child.parse_args(['--foo'])
usage: [-h] : error: unrecognized arguments: --foo
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Éric Araujo merwok@netwok.org added the comment:
I removed 3.3, since it currently means “won’t be done for 3.2, so note for later.” I don’t know if the report applies to 3.1 (doc fixes go into stable releases too), so I’m not adding it.
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Steven Bethard steven.bethard@gmail.com added the comment:
Ah, thanks for the fix. No it doesn't need to go in 3.1 - argparse is only in 2.7 and 3.2.
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Roundup Robot devnull@devnull added the comment:
New changeset d288666c1d58 by Steven Bethard in branch '3.2': Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before their children. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d288666c1d58
New changeset 15e98607555d by Steven Bethard in branch '2.7': Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before their children. (Merge from 3.2.) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/15e98607555d
New changeset 8bdc20468cbc by Steven Bethard in branch 'default': Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before their children. (Merge from 3.2.) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/8bdc20468cbc
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Steven Bethard steven.bethard@gmail.com added the comment:
I added some documentation in the "parents" section of the argparse docs.
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