Steven Bethard schrieb: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@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 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
