commit dce6e1bd5a5b41b22be10ba119fb5b6d5546959a
author Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com> Mon May 24 03:45:26 2010 +0000
committer Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com> Mon May 24 03:45:26 2010 +0000
tree bb01d38553fc9c08a8262f2f3abd7f720178f3b7
parent 74bd9cf7d02b80f479028b24b16e25fabe9263be

Fix default value for version help. Approved by Benjamin on python-dev: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-May/100231.html

Lib/argparse.py

diff --git a/Lib/argparse.py b/Lib/argparse.py
index 47386ab..f9279aa 100644
--- a/Lib/argparse.py
+++ b/Lib/argparse.py
@@ -987,7 +987,7 @@
                  version=None,
                  dest=SUPPRESS,
                  default=SUPPRESS,
-                 help=None):
+                 help="show program's version number and exit"):
         super(_VersionAction, self).__init__(
             option_strings=option_strings,
             dest=dest,