[Python-Dev] Python 2.7b1 and argparse's version action

[Steve Holden]

Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 18Apr2010 22:52, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> | Steven Bethard <steven.bethard <at> gmail.com> writes:
> | > I
> | > need to a see a consensus from a variety of developers that
> | > "--version" is the right answer, and not "-V/--version", etc.
> | 
> | Both are ok for me. "-v" as a shortcut for "--version" looks wrong, though.
> | "-v" is almost always used for verbosity these days.
> 
> My view is the same.

I don't expect -v to be one or the other, and I certainly don't expect
the rest of the world to want to confirm to what the Python community
decides.

regards
 Steve
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