Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter) parser.add_argument("-s", "--spam", help="Spam and eggs", type=str, required=True) parser.add_argument("-i", help="How many iterations", type=int, default=5) parser.parse_args()
which yields
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s SPAM, --spam SPAM Spam and eggs (default: None)
-i I How many iterations (default: 5)
but since -s is a required argument, the "(default: None)" help text is a bit misleasing
My proposal is to simply omit adding the default for required arguments like this:
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s SPAM, --spam SPAM Spam and eggs
-i I How many iterations (default: 5)
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
No response