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authorR. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2010-08-03 18:14:01 (GMT)
committerR. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2010-08-03 18:14:01 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r83675 | r.david.murray | 2010-08-03 13:56:09 -0400 (Tue, 03 Aug 2010) | 12 lines #9444: use first of prefix_chars for help opt instead of raising error An argparse option parser created with a prefix_chars that did not include a '-' would happily add -h and --help options, and then throw an error when it tried to format the help because the - was an invalid prefix character. This patch makes it use the first character of prefix_chars as the character for the help options if and only if '-' is not one of the valid prefix_chars. Fix by Theodore Turocy, unit tests by Catherine Devlin. ........
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/argparse.py b/Lib/argparse.py
index f9279aa..654ac48 100644
--- a/Lib/argparse.py
+++ b/Lib/argparse.py
@@ -1563,13 +1563,16 @@ class ArgumentParser(_AttributeHolder, _ActionsContainer):
# add help and version arguments if necessary
# (using explicit default to override global argument_default)
+ default_prefix = '-' if '-' in prefix_chars else prefix_chars[0]
if self.add_help:
self.add_argument(
- '-h', '--help', action='help', default=SUPPRESS,
+ default_prefix+'h', default_prefix*2+'help',
+ action='help', default=SUPPRESS,
help=_('show this help message and exit'))
if self.version:
self.add_argument(
- '-v', '--version', action='version', default=SUPPRESS,
+ default_prefix+'v', default_prefix*2+'version',
+ action='version', default=SUPPRESS,
version=self.version,
help=_("show program's version number and exit"))