[Python-Dev] Python 2.7b1 and argparse's version action

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Mon Apr 19 03:41:08 CEST 2010


On 18Apr2010 22:52, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
| Steven Bethard <steven.bethard <at> gmail.com> writes:
| > I
| > need to a see a consensus from a variety of developers that
| > "--version" is the right answer, and not "-V/--version", etc.
| 
| Both are ok for me. "-v" as a shortcut for "--version" looks wrong, though.
| "-v" is almost always used for verbosity these days.

My view is the same.
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