Silent help

John Coldrick <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:34:46 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.optik.user
Organization Axyz Animation Inc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
	Hit here - first off - thanks for the great module.  I'm a Python noob, and 
after perusing getopt and then optparse, well, I upgraded all the machines to 
Python 2.3.  :)

	On to my questions:

	1.  From what I can tell, documentation for customizing the '-h' output is 
sparse/terse.  I don't have the time/expertise to figure out the code roght 
now, but is the above statement true?  At least I can stop looking.  :)

	2. Part of my need for the above is to "hide" a few parameters from the user.  
My program can be called two ways - once by the user, and later by spawning 
processes in a cluster with their own params.  I wanted to keep the code 
all-in-one, so right now I've clustered these "bad" params at the end of the 
help, with a header saying to not use them.  I was able to at least figure 
that much out.  :)  However, is there a simple/quick way to tag certain 
params from showing up when the user enters 'foo.py -h'?

	Cheers,

	J.C.

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John Coldrick                  www.axyzfx.com        Axyz Animation
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