[issue32036] error mixing positional and non-positional arguments with `argparse`

R. David Murray added the comment: Ah, yes, I'd managed to forget about that issue, even though I was the one that finally committed the fix. So, the alternate parser will be in 3.7. In the meantime you can grab the code from the commit and put it in a local file, I

[issue32036] error mixing positional and non-positional arguments with `argparse`

Stefan Seefeld added the comment: It looks like https://bugs.python.org/issue14191 is a conversation about the same inconsistent behaviour. It is set to "fixed". Can you comment on this ? Should I follow the advice mentioned there about how to work around the issue ?

[issue32036] error mixing positional and non-positional arguments with `argparse`

Stefan Seefeld added the comment: On 15.11.2017 12:54, R. David Murray wrote: > Can you reproduce this without your PosArgsParser? I can indeed (by simply commenting out the `action` argument to the `add_argument()` calls). That obviously results in all positional arguments

[issue32036] error mixing positional and non-positional arguments with `argparse`

R. David Murray added the comment: Can you reproduce this without your PosArgsParser? -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker

[issue32036] error mixing positional and non-positional arguments with `argparse`

New submission from Stefan Seefeld : I'm trying to mix positional and non-positional arguments with a script using `argparse`, but I observe inconsistent behaviour. The attached test runs fine when invoked with test_argparse.py --info a a=b test_argparse.py a a=b --info