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

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Tue Apr 20 00:12:06 CEST 2010


On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Michael Foord
<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> On 19/04/2010 21:19, Scott Dial wrote:
>> Is consensus superficial?
>
> No, but it isn't always possible or necessary. In general the maintainer of
> a module should make the best decision, not the one with the most backing.
> :-)

Yep, that was my logic. With 42% vs. 47% I decided there really wasn't
consensus, and I should make the decision that I felt was best for
argparse. If it had been e.g., 20% vs 80%, I would have bent to the
will of the masses regardless of what I thought.

Steve
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