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| Date | Wed, 5 Dec 2012 18:42:37 +0100 |
| From | Bruno Dupuis <python.ml.bruno.dupuis@lisael.org> |
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| Subject | Re: How does one make argparse print usage when no options are provided on the command line? |
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 08:48:30AM -0800, rh wrote:
> I have argparse working with one exception. I wanted the program to print out
> usage when no command line options are given. But I only came across
> other examples where people didn't use argparse but instead printed out
> a separate usage statement. So they used argparse for everything but the
> case where no command line args are given.
>
this is quite raw, but i'd add
import sys
if len(sys.argv) == 1:
sys.argv.append('-h')
before I call parser.parse_args()
Should work
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Bruno Dupuis
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Re: How does one make argparse print usage when no options are provided on the command line? Bruno Dupuis <python.ml.bruno.dupuis@lisael.org> - 2012-12-05 18:42 +0100
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