Domen Kožar <ielect...@gmail.com> added the comment: I agree — not the best example, here is a better one explaining what behavior should not exist:
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> parser.add_argument('foobar', action='store') >>> parser.add_argument('foobar2', nargs='?') >>> parser.add_argument('foobar3', nargs='*') >>> print parser.parse_args(['foo', '--', 'foo3', 'foo3']) Namespace(foobar='foo', foobar2='foo3', foobar3=['foo3']) I would expect both foo3 to be part of foobar3. This does not happen because of foobar2 argument eating zero or one argument. Arguments after -- should be left unparsed as such behavior was in optparse. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9077> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com