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Argparse is also broken. It's not possible to create an argument that captures all remaining arguments even though the docs say it is. There has been an open b
by akvadrako 5y ago
Argparse is also broken. It's not possible to create an argument that captures all remaining arguments even though the docs say it is.
There has been an open bug for this for many years.
- jwilk 5y agoLink to the bug?
- akvadrako 5y agohttps://bugs.python.org/issue17050 https://bugs.python.org/issue17050 Apparently after 7 years they decided it can't be fixed and updated the docs.
- jwilk 5y agoI'm baffled with the resolution of this bug. Removing the docs doesn't help anybody. In my experience, argparse.REMAINDER works reasonably well, and apparently I'm not alone; there's >100 packages in Debian that use it: https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=%5Cbargparse%5B.%5DREMAINDER%5Cb https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=%5Cbargparse%5B.%5DRE...
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