[issue32027] argparse allow_abbrev option also controls short flag combinations

paul j3 added the comment: The PR 4396 should be closed. -- nosy: +paul.j3 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue32027] argparse allow_abbrev option also controls short flag combinations

Berker Peksag added the comment: Thank you for the report and for the PR. I think this is a duplicate of issue 26967. > This issue is either a doc issue only or an unintended combination of > long option shortening and (the way more common) flag combinations. This is

[issue32027] argparse allow_abbrev option also controls short flag combinations

Change by Jörn Hees : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +4344 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

[issue32027] argparse allow_abbrev option also controls short flag combinations

New submission from Jörn Hees : The allow_abbrev option (default True) currently is documented like this (https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#allow-abbrev): > Normally, when you pass an argument list to the parse_args() method of an > ArgumentParser, it