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Author Martin.d'Anjou
Recipients Martin.d'Anjou, benschmaus, bethard, docs@python, eric.araujo, eric.smith, mburger, paul.j3, r.david.murray, terry.reedy, tshepang
Date 2014-01-21.15:59:07
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How about calling required arguments "required arguments"?

required arguments:
  --reqarg REQARG, -r REQARG
                        This is required
optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --optarg OPTARG, -o OPTARG
                        This is optional

Clear and unambiguous. With this approach the user does not have to bloat the help to state "This is required".

We're having the same discussion over at github regarding argparse4j:
https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/argparse4j/issues/26#issuecomment-32894297
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2014-01-21 15:59:07Martin.d'Anjousetrecipients: + Martin.d'Anjou, terry.reedy, bethard, eric.smith, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, docs@python, benschmaus, tshepang, paul.j3, mburger
2014-01-21 15:59:07Martin.d'Anjousetmessageid: <1390319947.6.0.397055766653.issue9694@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2014-01-21 15:59:07Martin.d'Anjoulinkissue9694 messages
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