Steven Bethard <[email protected]> added the comment:

This behavior is intentional - positional arguments must be sequential, not 
broken up with optional (flag) arguments between. So this is a documentation 
bug.

Allowing positional arguments to be broken up with optional (flag) arguments 
between them would be a new feature. It would also break many current parsers, 
so it couldn't be turned on by default. A new constructor parameter or method 
or something would have to be added to ArgumentParser. Patches welcome.

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