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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年01月21日.15:59:07
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Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<1390319947.6.0.397055766653.issue9694@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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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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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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Date	User	Action	Args
2014年01月21日 15:59:07	Martin.d'Anjou	set	recipients: + Martin.d'Anjou, terry.reedy, bethard, eric.smith, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, docs@python, benschmaus, tshepang, paul.j3, mburger
2014年01月21日 15:59:07	Martin.d'Anjou	set	messageid: <1390319947.6.0.397055766653.issue9694@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2014年01月21日 15:59:07	Martin.d'Anjou	link	issue9694 messages
2014年01月21日 15:59:07	Martin.d'Anjou	create

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