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Diffstat (limited to 'cmd2/cmd2.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | cmd2/cmd2.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/cmd2/cmd2.py b/cmd2/cmd2.py index 8810025a..ea4e01de 100644 --- a/cmd2/cmd2.py +++ b/cmd2/cmd2.py @@ -692,6 +692,14 @@ class Cmd(cmd.Cmd): for action in target_parser._actions: if isinstance(action, argparse._SubParsersAction): + # Temporary workaround for avoiding subcommand help text repeatedly getting added to + # action._choices_actions. Until we have instance-specific parser objects, we will remove + # any existing subcommand which has the same name before replacing it. This problem is + # exercised when more than one cmd2.Cmd-based object is created and the same subcommands + # get added each time. Argparse overwrites the previous subcommand but keeps growing the help + # text which is shown by running something like 'alias -h'. + action.remove_parser(subcommand_name) + # Get the kwargs for add_parser() add_parser_kwargs = getattr(method, constants.SUBCMD_ATTR_ADD_PARSER_KWARGS, {}) |