Re: Silent help

On 21 October 2004, John Coldrick said:
> 	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.  :)

Correct.  It's a wee bit better in Optik 1.5/Python 2.4, but still on
the terse side.

> 	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'?

from optparse import OptionParser, SUPPRESS_HELP
[...]
parser.add_option("--secret",
                  help=SUPPRESS_HELP)

Damn-I-really-did-think-of-everything'ly,

        Greg
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Greg Ward <[email protected]>                         http://www.gerg.ca/
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