How does one make argparse print usage when no options are provided on the command line?

[Bruno Dupuis]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 08:48:30AM -0800, rh wrote:
> I have argparse working with one exception. I wanted the program to print out
> usage when no command line options are given. But I only came across
> other examples where people didn't use argparse but instead printed out
> a separate usage statement. So they used argparse for everything but the
> case where no command line args are given.
> 

this is quite raw, but i'd add 

import sys
if len(sys.argv) == 1:
    sys.argv.append('-h')

before I call parser.parse_args()

Should work


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Bruno Dupuis