Improve ftplib test program doc #106266
Improve ftplib test program doc #106266
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The -p option toggles passive mode, it is not related to passwords. (Aside: Passwords can be passed using a .netrc file.)
Explain that it changes the working directory. Also reorder to match the order in the Usage, to clarify that this is referring to the -d[dir] option after the host, as opposed to the -d option before the host (which enables debugging).
Previously it only printed the help message when invoked with no arguments (`python3 -m ftplib`). Add support for the standard -h/--help option, so that users who run `python3 -m ftplib --help` will get a nice help message instead of a backtrace (caused by "--help" being interpreted as the host).
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It would be better to rewrite argument parsing using |
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Hi @serhiy-storchaka, thanks for taking a look. I'd be happy to have a go switching to getopt/argparse, but it seems slightly tricky -- I think the options after the I opened this PR because there was an actual mistake in the help for -p (see first commit), I think it's worth fixing that independently of switching to getopt/argparse. (The other two commits are also trivial, so I think might as well merge them too.) |
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Ah, I see. The help was incorrect. But it is more complicated, because the CLI has more options (it is especially confusing that it has two |
Oh wow, I'm surprised I didn't notice that. Closing in favour of your PR (#114242). Thanks for doing the maintenance work, I think it's a useful little tool! |
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Trivial fixes and improvements for help feature of the test program included with the
ftplibmodule.