glance-upload --help fails

[Graham Hemingway]

Using the Diablo milestone 1 release, if I run glance-upload --help it dies and puts out the following trace:

root@cloudfront1:~/images# glance-upload --help
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/glance-upload", line 132, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/glance-upload", line 100, in main
    args = parse_args()
  File "/usr/bin/glance-upload", line 95, in parse_args
    args = parser.parse_args()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 1698, in parse_args
    args, argv = self.parse_known_args(args, namespace)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 1730, in parse_known_args
    return self._parse_known_args(args, namespace)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 1932, in _parse_known_args
    start_index = consume_optional(start_index)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 1872, in consume_optional
    take_action(action, args, option_string)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 1800, in take_action
    action(self, namespace, argument_values, option_string)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 1023, in __call__
    parser.print_help()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 2319, in print_help
    self._print_message(self.format_help(), file)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 2293, in format_help
    return formatter.format_help()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 314, in format_help
    help = self._root_section.format_help()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 244, in format_help
    func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 244, in format_help
    func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 544, in _format_action
    help_text = self._expand_help(action)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/argparse.py", line 630, in _expand_help
    return self._get_help_string(action) % params
TypeError: %d format: a number is required, not dict

A detailed help dialog would be great.
Cheers,
   Graham

[Justin Shepherd (jshepher)]

You can do the following, which will bypass the issue:

=== modified file 'bin/glance-upload'
--- bin/glance-upload 2011-03-05 17:04:43 +0000
+++ bin/glance-upload 2011-06-23 16:49:57 +0000
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@

 def parse_args():
- parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Upload an image into Glance')
+ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Upload an image into Glance', add_help=False)
     parser.add_argument('filename', help='file to upload into Glance')
     parser.add_argument('name', help='name of image')
     parser.add_argument('--host', metavar='HOST', default='127.0.0.1',

This also makes "-h" and "--help" unknown options (which still shows the help section anyway)

However, I have no idea why the help function is expecting a number not a dictionary.