Clint Olsen added the comment: Thanks for the suggestion!
It seems to be extremely limited, unfortunately. I don't want option processing to cease once I hit this switch. p=argparse.ArgumentParser() p.add_argument('--subscipt_args', nargs='...') #p.add_argument('pos',nargs='*') p.add_argument('--verbose', action='store_true') args = p.parse_args('--subscipt_args --foo --bar --baz -- --verbose '.split()) print(args) usage: test.py [-h] [--subscipt_args ...] [--verbose] test.py: error: unrecognized arguments: -- --verbose ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9334> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com