Improve option definitions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 3b3a9a4f494d099c1a00d00900f83549d379e65c..aee444b534518af424de089307e91289f0a624b7 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -186,18 +186,18 @@ def parseOpts():
        general.add_option('-r', '--rate-limit',
                        dest='ratelimit', metavar='LIMIT', help='download rate limit (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)')
        general.add_option('-R', '--retries',
-                       dest='retries', metavar='RETRIES', help='number of retries (default is 10)', default=10)
+                       dest='retries', metavar='RETRIES', help='number of retries (default is %default)', default=10)
        general.add_option('--dump-user-agent',
                        action='store_true', dest='dump_user_agent',
                        help='display the current browser identification', default=False)
        general.add_option('--user-agent',
-                       action='store', dest='useragent', help='specify a custom user agent')
+                       dest='user_agent', help='specify a custom user agent', metavar='UA')
        general.add_option('--list-extractors',
                        action='store_true', dest='list_extractors',
                        help='List all supported extractors and the URLs they would handle', default=False)
 
        selection.add_option('--playlist-start',
-                       dest='playliststart', metavar='NUMBER', help='playlist video to start at (default is 1)', default=1)
+                       dest='playliststart', metavar='NUMBER', help='playlist video to start at (default is %default)', default=1)
        selection.add_option('--playlist-end',
                        dest='playlistend', metavar='NUMBER', help='playlist video to end at (default is last)', default=-1)
        selection.add_option('--match-title', dest='matchtitle', metavar='REGEX',help='download only matching titles (regex or caseless sub-string)')
@@ -373,9 +373,9 @@ def _real_main():
                except (IOError, OSError), err:
                        sys.exit(u'ERROR: unable to open cookie file')
        # Set user agent
-       if opts.useragent is not None:
-               std_headers['User-Agent'] = opts.useragent
-               
+       if opts.user_agent is not None:
+               std_headers['User-Agent'] = opts.user_agent
+
        # Dump user agent
        if opts.dump_user_agent:
                print std_headers['User-Agent']