On 2013-11-26 18:16, Eli Bendersky wrote:
FWIW I'm not advocating a breaking behavior change here - I fully realize the
ship has sailed. I'm interested in mitigation actions, though. Making the
documentation explain this explicitly + adding an option to disable prefix
matching (in 3.5 since we're past the 3.4 features point) will go a long way for
alleviating this gotcha.
There is already the One Obvious Way to handle situations like yours: the user
uses "--" to mark that the remaining arguments are pure arguments and not --options.
parent-script --verbose -- ./child_script.py --no-verbose --etc
This is a common idiom across many argument processors. parse_known_args() is
not a good solution for this situation even if you mitigate the prefix issue.
Exact matches of --options are still possible.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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