[New-bugs-announce] [issue28219] Is order of argparse --help output officially defined?
Barry A. Warsaw
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Sep 20 15:53:07 EDT 2016
New submission from Barry A. Warsaw:
Sometimes we want to control the order of arguments printed by an argparse defined cli. In practice, arguments are printed in the order in which they are added via add_argument(), but I don't think this is documented and thus should be considered an implementation detail. It should be possible to enforce an order by the use of a formatter_class, but you'd probably need some extra metadata on arguments to do this, so it's not completely obvious how to write such a formatter class.
Instead, I propose to document and officially support that the order of add_argument() calls defines the order in which arguments are printed via --help.
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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 277060
nosy: barry, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Is order of argparse --help output officially defined?
versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7
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