Re: argparse

From	"Sven R. Kunze" <srkunze@mail.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: argparse
Date	2016-03-12 13:21 +0100
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On 12.03.2016 00:18, Fillmore wrote:
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> Playing with ArgumentParser. I can't find a way to override the -h and 
> --help options so that it provides my custom help message.

I remember everything being a lot easier using argh instead of argparse.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/argh#examples

The doc string of a function basically is the help string which is true 
for arguments as well.

I hope that helps even though you asked for argparse explicitly. :-)

Best,
Sven

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  Re: argparse "Sven R. Kunze" <srkunze@mail.de> - 2016-03-12 13:21 +0100

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