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

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 01:24:59 CEST 2010


On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Steven Bethard <steven.bethard <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> Note
>> that even though I agree with you that "-v/--version" is probably not
>> the best choice, in the poll[2] 11% of people still wanted this.
>
> This strikes me as a small minority.

Agreed, but it's also the current behavior, and has been since the
beginning of argparse. Note that no one complained about it until
Tobias filed the issue in Nov 06, 2009.

Steve
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