argparse subparser --help 输出不显示子解析器的描述 [英] argparse subparser --help output doesn't show the subparser's description

问题描述

如果我创建一个带有特定帮助字符串的子解析器，当用户运行 myprog 命令 --help 时不会显示该字符串:

If I create a subparser with a specific help string, this string is not displayed when the user runs myprog command --help:

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(help="sub-command help")

parser_command = subparsers.add_parser("command", help="Issue a command")
parser.parse_args()

顶级帮助显示了这个 command 子命令，旁边有发出命令"的描述:

The top-level help shows this command subcommand with the description "Issue a command" alongside:

$ python prog.py --help
usage: prog.py [-h] {command} ...

positional arguments:
  {command}   sub-command help
    command   Issue a command

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

但是子命令的帮助没有显示这个描述:

However the subcommand's help doesn't show this description:

$ python prog.py command --help
usage: prog.py command [-h]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

我期望子命令的帮助可以打印出子命令的实际用途.IE.我希望在 python prog.py command --help 的输出中的某处看到文本发出命令".

What I would expect is for the subcommand's help to print out what the subcommand is actually for. I.e. I expected to see the text "Issue a command" somewhere in the output to python prog.py command --help.

有没有办法将此文本包含在子命令的帮助输出中?是否有另一个子解析器属性可用于提供子命令的描述?

Is there a way to include this text in the subcommand's help output? Is there another subparser attribute that can be used to provide a description of the subcommand?

推荐答案

add_parser 方法接受(大多数)ArgumentParser 构造函数所做的参数.

The add_parser method accepts (most) of the parameters that a ArgumentParser constructor does.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#sub-commands

add_subparsers 段落中的这句话很容易被忽略:

It's easy to overlook this sentence in the add_subparsers paragraph:

这个对象有一个方法 add_parser()，它接受一个命令名称和任何 ArgumentParser 构造函数参数，并返回一个可以像往常一样修改的 ArgumentParser 对象.

This object has a single method, add_parser(), which takes a command name and any ArgumentParser constructor arguments, and returns an ArgumentParser object that can be modified as usual.

In [93]: parser=argparse.ArgumentParser()

In [94]: sp = parser.add_subparsers(dest='cmd',description='subparses description')

In [95]: p1 = sp.add_parser('foo',help='foo help', description='subparser description')
In [96]: p1.add_argument('--bar');

主解析器的帮助:

In [97]: parser.parse_args('-h'.split())
usage: ipython3 [-h] {foo} ...

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

subcommands:
  subparses description

  {foo}
    foo       foo help
...

子解析器的帮助:

In [98]: parser.parse_args('foo -h'.split())
usage: ipython3 foo [-h] [--bar BAR]

subparser description

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  --bar BAR
...

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