[issue9340] argparse parse_known_args does not work with subparsers

Steven Bethard added the comment: Fixed with a variant of Catherine's patch (following R. David Murray's suggestion of inlining the two methods) in r86111 (3.X) and r86112 (2.7). Also added one more test to make sure that the order of the extra arguments is consistent (extra arguments from ma

[issue9340] argparse parse_known_args does not work with subparsers

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[issue9340] argparse parse_known_args does not work with subparsers

R. David Murray added the comment: I've looked over this patch, and it seems to me that there is no compelling reason to create two new functions. I think it would be clearer to just inline that code in the places it is used. If it turns out later that the code needs to be reused elsewhere,

[issue9340] argparse parse_known_args does not work with subparsers

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[issue9340] argparse parse_known_args does not work with subparsers

Catherine Devlin added the comment: This patch fixes it with a fourth approach: if unrecognized arguments are found during subparser parsing, information about them is inserted into the namespace (under "._unrecognized"), and the decision about whether to exit is deferred. When top-level par

[issue9340] argparse parse_known_args does not work with subparsers

Catherine Devlin added the comment: Some simple unit tests for parse_known_args on a parser with a subparser. They are indeed failing on the trunk. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18346/test_subparser_parse_known_args.patch ___ Python tr

[issue9340] argparse parse_known_args does not work with subparsers

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[issue9340] argparse parse_known_args does not work with subparsers

Catherine Devlin added the comment: Some basic unit tests for parse_known_args on a subparser. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +catherine Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18344/test_subparser_parse_known_args.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue9340] argparse parse_known_args does not work with subparsers

New submission from Steven Bethard : [Moved from http://code.google.com/p/argparse/issues/detail?id=45] If you try to use parse_known_args and you have a subparser, the subparser will still complain if it sees extra arguments: >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> subparsers = parser.add_