New submission from Eli Bendersky: Prefix matching behavior can lead to bugs when combined with parse_known_args. See this thread for more details:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-November/130601.html Issue #14910 deals with making it optional, but until 3.5 we'll have to do with a documentation warning. ---------- assignee: eli.bendersky components: Documentation messages: 204584 nosy: bethard, eli.bendersky, r.david.murray priority: high severity: normal status: open title: Document prefix matching behavior of argparse, particularly for parse_known_args versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19814> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com