On 2011.03.29 09:44 PM, r j wrote: > >>> help(argparse) > prints out the help library. The output it gives is over my head right now. > There are standard documentation and examples for argparse in the > python standard Libaray > here http://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html That's been my documentation so far. I've looked through it and I can't find an option that controls order. I'm mainly concerned with how they're listed in a help message since I think order doesn't actually matter (or I can at least group them to make them get parsed in the order I want).