<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 6:17 PM, Scott Kruger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kruger@txcorp.com" target="_blank">kruger@txcorp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 3/2/18 12:44 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:<br>
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On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Jed Brown <<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org" target="_blank">jed@jedbrown.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org" target="_blank">jed@jedbrown.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
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Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank">knepley@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank">knepley@gmail.com</a>>> writes:<br>
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> That is not the same as printing unused arguments. Michael's Pythia<br>
> does this correctly, but it is even less simple.<br>
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You want it to accept the unused arguments and just print them without<br>
error, or some more subtle relationship among dependent options?<br>
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Yes, I do. I consider PETSc to have the correct functionality. The open world<br>
assumption is a good one, as long as you report that no one accepted that option.<br>
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Requires Python > 2.7</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Good catch!</div><div><br></div><div>The other thing I remember argparse not doing last time I checked, was that it could</div><div>group options into sections like we want for our help.</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Matt<br>
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We're<br>
here in a thread about not silently accepting options that *don't<br>
exist anywhere*.<br>
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