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Created on 2020-04-28 12:34 by Leonid Ilyevsky, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin.
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| msg367524 - (view) | Author: Leonid Ilyevsky (Leonid Ilyevsky) | Date: 2020-04-28 12:34 | |
In my script I have a positional argument with list of choices, and that list is pretty long. The help formatter shows it as one long line, list in curly brackets, comma-separated. This is very difficult to look at and find the choice I need. It would be nice to have an option to print the choices list one per line. |
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| msg367537 - (view) | Author: paul j3 (paul.j3) *  |
Date: 2020-04-28 15:50 | |
The display of the choices has been discussed in previous issues. When the choices is long there isn't a clean way of handling the display. I'd suggest using a 'metavar' to show a short value, and then enumerate the choices in the help text. Use the 'Raw' help formatter to handle newlines as desired. Choices get displayed in 3 places - the usage, the help, and error messages. Metavar replaces 2 of those. An alternative to choices is a custom 'type' function. An example would be all integers between 0 and 100. Choices would work, but make a poor display regardless of formatting. |
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| msg368215 - (view) | Author: paul j3 (paul.j3) * |
Date: 2020-05-06 00:06 | |
Related topic re. long usage with choices : https://bugs.python.org/issue16418 |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:59:30 | admin | set | github: 84600 |
| 2020-05-06 00:06:00 | paul.j3 | set | messages: + msg368215 |
| 2020-04-28 15:50:18 | paul.j3 | set | messages: + msg367537 |
| 2020-04-28 12:45:45 | xtreak | set | nosy:
+ rhettinger, paul.j3 |
| 2020-04-28 12:34:22 | Leonid Ilyevsky | create | |