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Restructure Argument Clinic CLI #107467

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erlend-aasland opened this issue Jul 30, 2023 · 2 comments
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Tracked by #104683

Restructure Argument Clinic CLI #107467

erlend-aasland opened this issue Jul 30, 2023 · 2 comments
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topic-argument-clinic type-feature A feature request or enhancement

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erlend-aasland commented Jul 30, 2023

Suggesting to ...:

  • make the clinic tool a well-behaved command-line citizen; write to stderr, not stdout, on error (partly depends on Rework Argument Clinic error handling #107468)
  • put the whole CLI in main, making it easier to mock the tool in the test suite (currently we use subprocesses, which is slow, and requires several lines of boiler-plate test setup code)
  • Introduce CLIError and use it for usage errors Used ArgumentParser.error instead.

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@erlend-aasland erlend-aasland added type-feature A feature request or enhancement topic-argument-clinic labels Jul 30, 2023
erlend-aasland added a commit to erlend-aasland/cpython that referenced this issue Jul 30, 2023
- Add and use CLIError exception for CLI usage errors
- On CLI error, print to stderr instead of stdout
- Put the entire CLI in main()
- Rework ClinicExternalTest to call main() instead of using subprocesses
erlend-aasland added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 1, 2023
- Use ArgumentParser.error() to handle CLI errors
- Put the entire CLI in main()
- Rework ClinicExternalTest to call main() instead of using subprocesses

Co-authored-by: AlexWaygood <[email protected]>
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@erlend-aasland is there anything left to do in this issue? Looks like #107469 captured all of this (maybe save stderr/stdout?)

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Thanks for the heads-up! Yes, this can be closed.

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