这里的大多数答案都需要导入另一个模块，比如sys，或者使用可选参数。我想找到一个只使用argparse的答案，使用所需的参数，如果可能的话，不捕获异常。最后我得到了以下结论:

import argparse

if __name__ == '__main__':

    arg_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=False)
    arg_parser.add_argument('input_file', type=str, help='The path to the input file.')
    arg_parser.add_argument('output_file', type=str, help='The path to the output file.')
    arg_parser.add_argument('-h','--help', action='store_true', help='show this help message and exit')
    arg_parser.usage = arg_parser.format_help()
    args = arg_parser.parse_args()

The main idea was to use the format_help function in order to provide the help string to the usage statement. Setting add_help to False in the call to ArgumentParser() prevents the help statement from printing twice in certain circumstances. However, I had to create an argument for the optional help argument that mimicked the typical help message once it was set to False in order to display the optional help argument in the help message. The action is set to store_true in the help argument to prevent the help message from filling in a value like HELP for the parameter when it prints the help message.

这里有另一种方法来做，如果你需要一些灵活的东西，你想显示帮助，如果特定的参数被传递，没有或超过1个冲突的参数:

import argparse
import sys

def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('-d', '--days', required=False,  help="Check mapped inventory that is x days old", default=None)
    parser.add_argument('-e', '--event', required=False, action="store", dest="event_id",
                        help="Check mapped inventory for a specific event", default=None)
    parser.add_argument('-b', '--broker', required=False, action="store", dest="broker_id",
                        help="Check mapped inventory for a broker", default=None)
    parser.add_argument('-k', '--keyword', required=False, action="store", dest="event_keyword",
                        help="Check mapped inventory for a specific event keyword", default=None)
    parser.add_argument('-p', '--product', required=False, action="store", dest="product_id",
                        help="Check mapped inventory for a specific product", default=None)
    parser.add_argument('-m', '--metadata', required=False, action="store", dest="metadata",
                        help="Check mapped inventory for specific metadata, good for debugging past tix", default=None)
    parser.add_argument('-u', '--update', required=False, action="store_true", dest="make_updates",
                        help="Update the event for a product if there is a difference, default No", default=False)
    args = parser.parse_args()

    days = args.days
    event_id = args.event_id
    broker_id = args.broker_id
    event_keyword = args.event_keyword
    product_id = args.product_id
    metadata = args.metadata
    make_updates = args.make_updates

    no_change_counter = 0
    change_counter = 0

    req_arg = bool(days) + bool(event_id) + bool(broker_id) + bool(product_id) + bool(event_keyword) + bool(metadata)
    if not req_arg:
        print("Need to specify days, broker id, event id, event keyword or past tickets full metadata")
        parser.print_help()
        sys.exit()
    elif req_arg != 1:
        print("More than one option specified. Need to specify only one required option")
        parser.print_help()
        sys.exit()

    # Processing logic here ...

干杯!

我喜欢让事情尽可能简单，这很有效:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
Description = """Tool description"""
Epilog  = """toolname.py -a aflag -b bflag  with these combined it does blah"""
arg_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
    formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,
    description=Description, 
    epilog=Epilog,
)
    try:
        if len(sys.argv) == 1:
            arg_parser.print_help()
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)

这就是我如何开始我的所有工具，因为它总是好的包括一些例子

用nargs设置位置参数，检查位置参数是否为空。

import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('file', nargs='?')
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.file:
    parser.print_help()

参考Python nargs

如果您的命令是用户需要选择某些操作的命令，则使用互斥组required=True。

这是对pd321给出的答案的扩展。

import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group(required=True)
group.add_argument("--batch", action='store', type=int,  metavar='pay_id')
group.add_argument("--list", action='store_true')
group.add_argument("--all", action='store_true', help='check all payments')

args=parser.parse_args()

if args.batch:
    print('batch {}'.format(args.batch))

if args.list:
    print('list')

if args.all:
    print('all')

输出:

$ python3 a_test.py 用法:a_test.py [h](——批pay_id | - |列表) A_test.py: error:参数之一——batch——list——all是必需的

这只是基本的帮助。其他的一些答案会给你充分的帮助。但至少你的用户知道他们可以做-h

最简洁的解决方案是手动传递默认参数，如果没有在命令行中给出:

parser.parse_args(args=None if sys.argv[1:] else ['--help'])

完整的例子:

import argparse, sys

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--host', default='localhost', help='Host to connect to')
# parse arguments
args = parser.parse_args(args=None if sys.argv[1:] else ['--help'])

# use your args
print("connecting to {}".format(args.host))

如果调用w/o参数，这将打印完整的帮助(而不是简短的用法)。