[default: ] vs. (default: )

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

Is there a reason why default values of user options are sometimes displayed inside brackets [] (3 occurrences):

wheel/src/wheel/bdist_wheel.py

Line 200 in 376373b

"Owner name used when creating a tar file" " [default: current user]",

but most often inside parentheses () (6 occurrences):

wheel/src/wheel/bdist_wheel.py

Line 195 in 376373b

"build the archive using relative paths " "(default: false)",

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

See also pypa/distutils#251, since class Command is defined in distutils.

[henryiii]

All this lives in setputools now. This is just a CLI tool. Feel free to ask there, it might be easier to unify now that it's all in one spot.

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

See pypa/setuptools#4421.