Bug 330867 – dev-python/argparse DeprecationWarning

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Helmut Jarausch 2010-08-02 16:23:20 UTC]

Using dev-python/argparse-1.1 with Python-2.6.5  gives
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/argparse.py:1576: DeprecationWarning: The "version" argument to ArgumentParser is deprecated. Please use "add_argument(..., action='version', version="N", ...)" instead
  """instead""", DeprecationWarning)


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 William Hubbs 2010-08-04 20:53:45 UTC]

This is not a bug in the argparse module.

The deprecation warning is because the software using the module is
passing a version= argument to the ArgumentParser() method when it is
creating the parser instead of using the parser.add_argument method to
create a version option.

For more information, see section 15.4.6 of the standard library
documentation for python 2.7 [1], which also applies if using argparse
with python 2.6.

http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html

[Comment 2 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) 2010-08-05 07:23:38 UTC]

I agree with comment #1, closing.