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diff --git a/doc/ArgumentParser.html b/doc/ArgumentParser.html
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+++ b/doc/ArgumentParser.html
@@ -52,12 +52,11 @@
<dl class="class">
<dt id="ArgumentParser">
<em class="property">
-class </em><tt class="descname">ArgumentParser</tt><big>(</big><span class="optional">[</span><em>description</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>epilog</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>prog</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>usage</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>version</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>add_help</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>argument_default</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>parents</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>prefix_chars</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>conflict_handler</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>formatter_class</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#ArgumentParser" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+class </em><tt class="descname">ArgumentParser</tt><big>(</big><span class="optional">[</span><em>description</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>epilog</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>prog</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>usage</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>add_help</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>argument_default</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>parents</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>prefix_chars</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>conflict_handler</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>formatter_class</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#ArgumentParser" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Create a new <a title="ArgumentParser" class="reference internal" href="#ArgumentParser"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">ArgumentParser</span></tt></a> object. Each parameter has its own more detailed description below, but in short they are:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#description">description</a> - Text to display before the argument help.</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#epilog">epilog</a> - Text to display after the argument help.</li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#version">version</a> - A version number used to add a -v/&#8211;version option to the parser.</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#add-help">add_help</a> - Add a -h/&#8211;help option to the parser. (default: True)</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#argument-default">argument_default</a> - Set the global default value for arguments. (default: None)</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#parents">parents</a> - A list of :class:ArgumentParser objects whose arguments should also be included.</li>
@@ -105,22 +104,6 @@ class </em><tt class="descname">ArgumentParser</tt><big>(</big><span class="opti
</div>
<p>As with the <a class="reference internal" href="#description">description</a> argument, the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">epilog=</span></tt> text is by default line-wrapped, but this behavior can be adjusted with the <a class="reference internal" href="#formatter-class">formatter_class</a> argument to ArgumentParser.</p>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="version">
-<h2>version<a class="headerlink" href="#version" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
-<p>Programs which want to display the program version at the command line can supply a version message as the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">version=</span></tt> argument to ArgumentParser. This will add a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-v/--version</span></tt> option to the ArgumentParser that can be invoked to print the version string:</p>
-<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">parser</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">argparse</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ArgumentParser</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">prog</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;PROG&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">version</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="si">%(prog)s</span><span class="s"> 3.5&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
-<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">parser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">print_help</span><span class="p">()</span>
-<span class="go">usage: PROG [-h] [-v]</span>
-
-<span class="go">optional arguments:</span>
-<span class="go"> -h, --help show this help message and exit</span>
-<span class="go"> -v, --version show program&#39;s version number and exit</span>
-<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">parser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">parse_args</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="s">&#39;-v&#39;</span><span class="p">])</span>
-<span class="go">PROG 3.5</span>
-</pre></div>
-</div>
-<p>Note you can use the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(prog)s</span></tt> format specifier to insert the program name into the version string. For greater customization, see the documentation on the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'version'</span></tt> action available for <a title="add_argument" class="reference external" href="add_argument.html#add_argument"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">add_argument()</span></tt></a>.</p>
-</div>
<div class="section" id="add-help">
<h2>add_help<a class="headerlink" href="#add-help" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>By default, ArgumentParser objects add a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-h/--help</span></tt> option which simply displays the parser&#8217;s help message. For example, consider a file named <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">myprogram.py</span></tt> containing the following code:</p>
@@ -396,7 +379,6 @@ optional arguments:
<li><a class="reference external" href="">ArgumentParser objects</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference external" href="#description">description</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="#epilog">epilog</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference external" href="#version">version</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="#add-help">add_help</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="#prefix-chars">prefix_chars</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="#fromfile-prefix-chars">fromfile_prefix_chars</a></li>
diff --git a/doc/add_argument.html b/doc/add_argument.html
index 1d34a65..38e8954 100644
--- a/doc/add_argument.html
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@@ -139,11 +139,11 @@
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
-<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'version'</span></tt> - This expects a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">version=</span></tt> keyword argument in the <a title="add_argument" class="reference internal" href="#add_argument"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">add_argument()</span></tt></a> call, and prints version information and exits when invoked. This can be used when the default <a title="ArgumentParser" class="reference external" href="ArgumentParser.html#ArgumentParser"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">ArgumentParser</span></tt></a> version flags <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-v,</span> <span class="pre">--version</span></tt> are not appropriate for your program.</p>
+<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'version'</span></tt> - This expects a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">version=</span></tt> keyword argument in the <a title="add_argument" class="reference internal" href="#add_argument"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">add_argument()</span></tt></a> call, and prints version information and exits when invoked.</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">argparse</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">parser</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">argparse</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ArgumentParser</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">prog</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;PROG&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
-<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">parser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_argument</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;-V&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">action</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;version&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">version</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="si">%(prog)s</span><span class="s"> 2.0&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
-<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">parser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">parse_args</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="s">&#39;-V&#39;</span><span class="p">])</span>
+<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">parser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_argument</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;-v&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;--version&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">action</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;version&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">version</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="si">%(prog)s</span><span class="s"> 2.0&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
+<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">parser</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">parse_args</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="s">&#39;-v&#39;</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="go">PROG 2.0</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
diff --git a/doc/api-docs.html b/doc/api-docs.html
index eadfbe0..e257716 100644
--- a/doc/api-docs.html
+++ b/doc/api-docs.html
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference external" href="ArgumentParser.html">ArgumentParser objects</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference external" href="ArgumentParser.html#description">description</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference external" href="ArgumentParser.html#epilog">epilog</a></li>
-<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference external" href="ArgumentParser.html#version">version</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference external" href="ArgumentParser.html#add-help">add_help</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference external" href="ArgumentParser.html#prefix-chars">prefix_chars</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference external" href="ArgumentParser.html#fromfile-prefix-chars">fromfile_prefix_chars</a></li>
diff --git a/doc/searchindex.js b/doc/searchindex.js
index 3a561be..080fc79 100644
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diff --git a/doc/source/ArgumentParser.rst b/doc/source/ArgumentParser.rst
index f50ab5d..58f37cc 100644
--- a/doc/source/ArgumentParser.rst
+++ b/doc/source/ArgumentParser.rst
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
ArgumentParser objects
======================
-.. class:: ArgumentParser([description], [epilog], [prog], [usage], [version], [add_help], [argument_default], [parents], [prefix_chars], [conflict_handler], [formatter_class])
+.. class:: ArgumentParser([description], [epilog], [prog], [usage], [add_help], [argument_default], [parents], [prefix_chars], [conflict_handler], [formatter_class])
Create a new :class:`ArgumentParser` object. Each parameter has its own more detailed description below, but in short they are:
* description_ - Text to display before the argument help.
* epilog_ - Text to display after the argument help.
- * version_ - A version number used to add a -v/--version option to the parser.
* add_help_ - Add a -h/--help option to the parser. (default: True)
* argument_default_ - Set the global default value for arguments. (default: None)
* parents_ - A list of :class:ArgumentParser objects whose arguments should also be included.
@@ -59,24 +58,6 @@ Some programs like to display additional description of the program after the de
As with the description_ argument, the ``epilog=`` text is by default line-wrapped, but this behavior can be adjusted with the formatter_class_ argument to ArgumentParser.
-version
--------
-
-Programs which want to display the program version at the command line can supply a version message as the ``version=`` argument to ArgumentParser. This will add a ``-v/--version`` option to the ArgumentParser that can be invoked to print the version string::
-
- >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='PROG', version='%(prog)s 3.5')
- >>> parser.print_help()
- usage: PROG [-h] [-v]
-
- optional arguments:
- -h, --help show this help message and exit
- -v, --version show program's version number and exit
- >>> parser.parse_args(['-v'])
- PROG 3.5
-
-Note you can use the ``%(prog)s`` format specifier to insert the program name into the version string. For greater customization, see the documentation on the ``'version'`` action available for :meth:`add_argument`.
-
-
add_help
--------
diff --git a/doc/source/add_argument.rst b/doc/source/add_argument.rst
index e72df5b..374d742 100644
--- a/doc/source/add_argument.rst
+++ b/doc/source/add_argument.rst
@@ -85,12 +85,12 @@ action
>>> parser.parse_args('--str --int'.split())
Namespace(types=[<type 'str'>, <type 'int'>])
-* ``'version'`` - This expects a ``version=`` keyword argument in the :meth:`add_argument` call, and prints version information and exits when invoked. This can be used when the default :class:`ArgumentParser` version flags ``-v, --version`` are not appropriate for your program.
+* ``'version'`` - This expects a ``version=`` keyword argument in the :meth:`add_argument` call, and prints version information and exits when invoked.
>>> import argparse
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='PROG')
- >>> parser.add_argument('-V', action='version', version='%(prog)s 2.0')
- >>> parser.parse_args(['-V'])
+ >>> parser.add_argument('-v', '--version', action='version', version='%(prog)s 2.0')
+ >>> parser.parse_args(['-v'])
PROG 2.0
You can also specify an arbitrary action by passing an object that implements the Action API. The easiest way to do this is to extend ``argparse.Action``, supplying an appropriate ``__call__`` method. The ``__call__`` method accepts four parameters: