diff -r 0c8ffa562f3a Lib/test/test_zipfile.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_zipfile.py	Wed Nov 02 12:13:48 2016 +0200
+++ b/Lib/test/test_zipfile.py	Wed Nov 02 20:25:26 2016 +0200
@@ -2053,6 +2053,16 @@ class CommandLineTest(unittest.TestCase)
     def zipfilecmd_failure(self, *args):
         return script_helper.assert_python_failure('-m', 'zipfile', *args)
 
+    def test_bad_use(self, *args):
+        rc, out, err = self.zipfilecmd_failure()
+        self.assertEqual(out, b'')
+        self.assertIn(b'usage', err.lower())
+        self.assertIn(b'error', err.lower())
+        self.assertIn(b'required', err.lower())
+        rc, out, err = self.zipfilecmd_failure('-l', '')
+        self.assertEqual(out, b'')
+        self.assertNotEqual(err.strip(), b'')
+
     def test_test_command(self):
         zip_name = findfile('zipdir.zip')
         for opt in '-t', '--test':
diff -r 0c8ffa562f3a Lib/zipfile.py
--- a/Lib/zipfile.py	Wed Nov 02 12:13:48 2016 +0200
+++ b/Lib/zipfile.py	Wed Nov 02 20:25:26 2016 +0200
@@ -1953,9 +1953,9 @@ class PyZipFile(ZipFile):
 def main(args=None):
     import argparse
 
-    description = 'A simple command line interface for zipfile module.'
+    description = 'A simple command-line interface for zipfile module.'
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=description)
-    group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
+    group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group(required=True)
     group.add_argument('-l', '--list', metavar='<zipfile>',
                        help='Show listing of a zipfile')
     group.add_argument('-e', '--extract', nargs=2,
@@ -2010,8 +2010,5 @@ def main(args=None):
                     zippath = ''
                 addToZip(zf, path, zippath)
 
-    else:
-        parser.exit(2, parser.format_usage())
-
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     main()