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

[Tobias Herp]

Steven Bethard schrieb:
> 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, ...

The current /broken, non-standard/ behaviour.

For keeping a current status quo, this is an even worse poll.  Very
likely some of these voted for this choice because they were afraid of
changes (unnecessarily, as explained before).

> ... and has been since the beginning of argparse.

It's not my fault that in the beginning apparently nobody cared about
existing conventions.

> Note that no one complained about it until
> Tobias filed the issue in Nov 06, 2009.

This is not an argument at all.

I have collected lots of examples of widely used programs and their
options. The only example of '-v', '--verbose' is argparse.
It is vital we meet user expectations, and that we support developers in
producing programs that do so.

-- 
Tobias