Martin Panter added the comment: I was surprised to discover that “option straddling” doesn’t work this way with nargs="*". It seems to work fine with most other kinds of positional arguments I have tried, and I imagine that this was by design rather than accident. Many Gnu CLI programs also tend to support it as well (e.g. “cp file1 file2 --verbose dir/”).
I assumed nargs=argparse.REMAINDER was intended to override the “option straddling”. Otherwise, by just going off the documentation it sounds like nargs=argparse.REMAINDER is much the same as nargs="*". ---------- nosy: +vadmium _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15112> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
