I'm with Martin; just let it be explicit and stick an example in the docs. -Brett (from his phone with hopefully only one copy sent of this email) On Apr 18, 2010 9:22 PM, Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> wrote:

- many optparse programs use the version argument - many other programmers find this feature ver... You actually brought up a good reason yourself:

In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. If you ask "give me a version argument", the question is "how is it spelled?". IIUC, you originally complained that the spelling of argparse (i.e. -v/--version) is not good, and that a different spelling should be used. So it's ambiguous, in which case the feature shouldn't be provided in the first place. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http:/...