Current thinking on required options

[Dan Stromberg]

I guess maybe it seems like a problem to someone who hasn't used command
line tools much, based solely on a simplistic interpretation of the
terminology.

But strictly speaking, they're "command line options", or better "command
line arguments", not "options".

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 9:30 AM Paul Bryan <pbryan at anode.ca> wrote:

> Calling them options—when they're required—seems like a problem. 🙂
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> On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 09:04 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 2:55 AM Loris Bennett <loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de>
> wrote:
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> However, the options -o, -u, and -g are required, not optional.
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> The documentation
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>   https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#required
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> advises against required options and here
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> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24180527/argparse-required-arguments-listed-under-optional-arguments
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> a way of adding a section 'required arguments' to the usage is
> described.
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> Of _course_ some options need to be required.
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> I can't imagine what the author of that page was thinking.
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