Re: argparse — adding a --version flag in the face of positional args
Karen Park
jkpark at mymts.net
Sun Nov 27 23:23:16 EST 2022
I figured it out…there was a logistics file given with the assignment! I thought it was supposed to be a download included with the python download…oops!
Thanks,
Karen
> On Nov 27, 2022, at 9:34 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> ummm, hate to say this, but have you checked the documentation? this
>> case is supported using an action named 'version' without doing very much.
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> Thanks, Mats.
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> I actually searched all over the argparse docs. (There's a lot to digest.
> Honestly, if I wasn't attempting to be sort of up-to-date I'd just continue
> using getopt.) It never occurred to me that "version" would be special, so
> I didn't specifically search for it, or realize there would be a specific
> action devoted to it. I knew (the default) "help" was special, so I focused
> my search for it. Obviously, "--help" is a pretty bad search term.
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> Skip
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