Current thinking on required options

[Dan Stromberg]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 2:55 AM Loris Bennett <loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de>
wrote:

> However, the options -o, -u, and -g are required, not optional.
>
> The documentation
>
>   https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#required
>
> advises against required options and here
>
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24180527/argparse-required-arguments-listed-under-optional-arguments
>
> a way of adding a section 'required arguments' to the usage is
> described.
>

Of _course_ some options need to be required.

I can't imagine what the author of that page was thinking.