paul j3 added the comment:
This patch modifies that '--' handling from 13922, removing '--' from PARSER
and REMAINDER if it is the first string:
if action.nargs not in [PARSER, REMAINDER]:
try:
arg_strings.remove('--')
except ValueError:
pass
else:
# remove '--' if it is the first string, issue9571
if arg_strings and arg_strings[0] == '--':
arg_strings = arg_strings[1:]
Doing this for PARSER addresses this issue, and should not have any backward
compatibility issues, since starting a 'A...' list with '--' does not make
sense.
The argument for doing this with REMAINDER is a bit weaker. I can't think of
why a user would expect or want an initial '--', but someone might have written
code to compensate for this flaw.
test_argparse has 2 new tests, added at the end of the subparsers class. The
one for subparser has to contend with a bug that makes subparsers optional
(http://bugs.python.org/issue9253). The REMAINDER one is clearly related,
though it doesn't fit the test class theme.
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keywords: +patch
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35886/issue9571_1.patch
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