[issue15327] Argparse: main arguments and subparser arguments indistinguishable

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[issue15327] Argparse: main arguments and subparser arguments indistinguishable

Steven Bethard added the comment: If you'd like to help improve the documentation so that the workaround for your problem is more obvious, please contribute to Issue 15428. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue15327] Argparse: main arguments and subparser arguments indistinguishable

Steven Bethard added the comment: I don't think there's any easy way for argparse to automatically do what you want. However, there's a simple workaround - just use the dest= argument and specify two different destinations: >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> parser.add_argument('--ver

[issue15327] Argparse: main arguments and subparser arguments indistinguishable

samwyse added the comment: One change and one minor problem with my suggestion. First, you don't need the second alias, since it's a prefix of the argument name. Also, HelpFormatter._format_actions_usage ends with a bit of code labeled "clean up separators for mutually exclusive groups"; it

[issue15327] Argparse: main arguments and subparser arguments indistinguishable

samwyse added the comment: The Namespace object contains a combined list of all of the arguments, from both the main parser and the subparser. I don't see any way to resolve identically name augments without breaking a lot of code that relies on the current behavior. I would instead propose

[issue15327] Argparse: main arguments and subparser arguments indistinguishable

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[issue15327] Argparse: main arguments and subparser arguments indistinguishable

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[issue15327] Argparse: main arguments and subparser arguments indistinguishable

New submission from Ingo Fischer : I have an argument called '--verbose' in the main parser. Then I add a subparser called 'command', to which I add an argument with the same name '--verbose' (See attached script). When I process these args, I cannot decide afterwards if the user called 'mysc