scripts: print usage in argparse-using scripts when a command-line error occurs

For scripts that use Python's standard argparse module to parse
command-line arguments, create a subclass which will show the usage
the usage information when a command-line parsing error occurs. The most
common case would be when the script is run with no arguments; at least
then the user immediately gets to see what arguments they might need to
pass instead of just an error message.

(From OE-Core rev: d62fe7c9bc2df6a4464440a3cae0539074bf99aa)

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Paul Eggleton
2015-12-22 17:02:54 +13:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent 548d4332e8
commit 8e0a84c901
10 changed files with 38 additions and 15 deletions

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@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ lib_path = scripts_path + '/lib'
sys.path = sys.path + [lib_path]
from devtool import DevtoolError, setup_tinfoil
import scriptutils
import argparse_oe
logger = scriptutils.logger_create('devtool')
plugins = []
@@ -185,9 +186,9 @@ def main():
break
pth = os.path.dirname(pth)
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="OpenEmbedded development tool",
add_help=False,
epilog="Use %(prog)s <subcommand> --help to get help on a specific command")
parser = argparse_oe.ArgumentParser(description="OpenEmbedded development tool",
add_help=False,
epilog="Use %(prog)s <subcommand> --help to get help on a specific command")
parser.add_argument('--basepath', help='Base directory of SDK / build directory')
parser.add_argument('--bbpath', help='Explicitly specify the BBPATH, rather than getting it from the metadata')
parser.add_argument('-d', '--debug', help='Enable debug output', action='store_true')