Argument groups

[neithere]

http://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html#argument-groups

Note: This issue has been automatically migrated from Bitbucket Created by @neithere on 2012-12-23 02:43:49+00:00

[neithere]

+1! This is a really important one for me.

When printing help output, I want something like the following:

#!bash

usage: prog [-h][-v] COMMAND

COMMANDS:
   cmd1    description of cmd1
   cmd2    description of cmd2
   ...

And so on.

---

The help output's default "headings" ("positional arguments" and "optional arguments") are sensible generics, but I want more fine-grained customization of the output.

Other ways to customize the output would be awesome, too.

Apart from that, I am loving this package! Thanks so much. In all other respects, it beats the pants off of argparse!

Note: This comment has been automatically migrated from Bitbucket Created by Zearin on 2013-01-28 16:52:35+00:00

[e3krisztian]

I am writing a command line tool, that has quite many commands of which three share a common group of parameters - for defining a criteria for selecting something. These three commands have more parameters that are not shared. For the common group I created a new decorator (the criteria consists of many options) that adds them to a function and the function is expected to parse them from **kwargs by another function (other parameters not in this group are passed by name).

ArgumentParser has an .add_argument_group() method, that could be used to visually separate arguments in a group for the help screen, but I could not find a way to use it with argh as a user.