Re: [Python-Dev] [issue7284] argparse - display version in usage by default

2011-03-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:14 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > A pity that before argparse replaced optparse, there was no research > made to gather the output from various console tools to see how > argparse really saves people from reinventing their solutions. argparse was adopted because it was a

Re: [Python-Dev] [issue7284] argparse - display version in usage by default

2011-03-26 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Steven Bethard wrote: > > I see though that vi puts the full name and version before the usage (which > is currently impossible in argparse): That was exactly my use case, which I'd say is very common for small utilities. Just in 10 minutes I could find that abo