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Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help

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On 11/12/2013 19:46, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Square brackets in a usage description often mean "optional". You may
>>> want to be careful of that. There's no really good solution though.
>>
>> There is, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/docopt/0.6.1 :)
>
> That appears to use <x> for a mandatory argument x, which is then
> slightly ambiguous with shell redirection. But that's the best
> notation I've ever seen for distinguishing mandatory args from fixed
> keywords.
>
> CrisA
>

I use the alternative X for a mandatory argument X.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help brian cleere <briancleere@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 11:10 -0800
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-12-11 13:20 -0600
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 06:22 +1100
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-11 19:34 +0000
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-11 19:41 +0000
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 06:46 +1100
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-11 20:00 +0000
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 07:03 +1100
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-12-11 14:20 -0600
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-11 20:20 +0000
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help Christopher Welborn <cjwelborn@live.com> - 2013-12-11 18:49 -0600
  Re: adding values from a csv column and getting the mean. beginner help "M.F." <morefool@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 09:36 +0800

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