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Proposal:
importargparseparser=argparse.ArgumentParser(formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter)parser.add_argument("-s","--spam",help="Spam and eggs",type=str,required=True)parser.add_argument("-i",help="How many iterations",type=int,default=5)parser.parse_args()
which yields
options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -s SPAM, --spam SPAM Spam and eggs (default: None) -i I How many iterations (default: 5)but since -s is a required argument, the "(default: None)" help text is a bit misleasing
My proposal is to simply omit adding the default for required arguments like this:
options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -s SPAM, --spam SPAM Spam and eggs -i I How many iterations (default: 5)Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
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