Current thinking on required options
Paul Bryan
pbryan at anode.ca
Mon Apr 19 12:29:58 EDT 2021
Calling them options—when they're required—seems like a problem. 🙂
On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 09:04 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> 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.
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