New submission from Steven Bethard <steven.beth...@gmail.com>:
[Moved from http://code.google.com/p/argparse/issues/detail?id=45]
If you try to use parse_known_args and you have a subparser, the subparser will
still complain if it sees extra arguments:
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>>> subparsers = parser.add_subparsers()
>>> subparsers.add_parser('A')
>>> parser.parse_known_args(['A', '--foo', 'b'])
usage: A [-h]
A: error: unrecognized arguments: --foo b
What should be returned is probably:
>>> parser.parse_known_args(['A', '--foo', 'b'])
(Namespace(), ['--foo', 'b'])
The problem is that subparsers don't know whether they're being called by
parse_args() or parse_known_args(). I see a few possible fixes:
* Add another argument to Action.__call__ that indicates what method is being
called. But that would break any existing subclasses.
* Do some stack inspection using sys._getframe(). But that's not guaranteed to
work on other implementations of Python.
* When parse_args is called, set some flag on the subparsers object that causes
it to call parse_known_args instead, and restore that flag before
parse_known_args returns. This probably introduces potential threading issues,
though practically perhaps they'll never turn up.
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assignee: bethard
components: Library (Lib)
messages: 111285
nosy: bethard
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: argparse parse_known_args does not work with subparsers
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3
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