New submission from Adam Stewart:
I'm writing a wrapper that optionally accepts a file and reads more options
from that file. The wrapper then needs to pass all of these options and the
file to another program (qsub). Here is a minimal example to reproduce the
behavior I'm seeing:
>>> import argparse
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>>> parser.add_argument('-a')
>>> parser.add_argument('file', nargs='?')
>>> args = parser.parse_args(['-a', '3', 'myFile'])
>>> print(args)
Namespace(file='myFile', a='3')
>>> parser.parse_args(['-a', '4'], namespace=args)
>>> print(args)
Namespace(file=None, a='4')
The behavior I expect is that the file should remain as 'myFile', but it is
being wiped out. Is there any way to prevent this, or is this actually a bug?
I can recreate this problem in Python 2.7 and 3.5.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 281128
nosy: ajstewart
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: argparse: successive parsing wipes out nargs=? values
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.5
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