hugovk · GitHub

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

argparse help is in colour in Python 3.14:

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The defaults are also in the same plaintext as the main help, but some other CLIs use another colour.

Typer defaults are light grey:

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Composer defaults are yellow:

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For argparse, I suggest having "(default: " and ")" in grey, as they're not so important (and always the same). And the default value itself in (non-bold) yellow, to mirror the (bold) yellow of the label, where the default is sort of slotting into. For example, "pretty" is the default format, and the other choices are also in yellow:

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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:

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