[Python-Dev] Python 2.7b1 and argparse's version action

[Steven Bethard]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> To deal with this in a backwards compatible way while remaining on the
> path to more conventional behaviour, I suggest the following:
>
> 1. For Python 2.7, deprecate *just* the "-v" default behaviour for the
> version. This means "--version" and "-v" will be set to invoke different
> actions when the version argument is supplied (the latter will trigger a
> deprecation warning if supplied, while the former will work normally).

It's not clear how you would do this. If you can suggest a patch, I'd
be happy to consider it. However, and the moment, you get "-v" and
"--version" by simply specifying ArgumentParser(..., version="XXX").
So how do you deprecate just the "-v"?

All I can imagine you mean is to issue a deprecation warning whenever
a user of the script provides "-v" at the command line, but that seems
sketchy to me - we'd be deprecating features of someone's
*application*, not features of the argparse *library*.

Steve
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