Re: argparse — adding a --version flag in the face of positional args

[Skip Montanaro]

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> ummm, hate to say this, but have you checked the documentation?  this
> case is supported using an action named 'version' without doing very much.
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Thanks, Mats.

I actually searched all over the argparse docs. (There's a lot to digest.
Honestly, if I wasn't attempting to be sort of up-to-date I'd just continue
using getopt.) It never occurred to me that "version" would be special, so
I didn't specifically search for it, or realize there would be a specific
action devoted to it. I knew (the default) "help" was special, so I focused
my search for it. Obviously, "--help" is a pretty bad search term.

Skip

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