[issue13966] Add disable_interspersed_args() to argparse.ArgumentParser

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[issue13966] Add disable_interspersed_args() to argparse.ArgumentParser

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[issue13966] Add disable_interspersed_args() to argparse.ArgumentParser

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[issue13966] Add disable_interspersed_args() to argparse.ArgumentParser

László Attila Tóth added the comment: It seems I found the solution in the attached file argparse.disable_interspersed_args.python35.diff, and it's much-much easier than I thought. I assume that this patch can cleanly applied to earlier versions (python 3.2-3.4), but I didn't check it.

[issue13966] Add disable_interspersed_args() to argparse.ArgumentParser

paul j3 added the comment: http://bugs.python.org/issue14191 implements the other side of optparse behavior - allowing a complete intermixing of optionals and positionals. It does that with a new 'ArgumentParser.parse_intermixed_args()' method. --

[issue13966] Add disable_interspersed_args() to argparse.ArgumentParser

paul j3 added the comment: Looking further at test_argparse.py, I should say that the behavior of multiple positionals when there is one cluster of positional argstrings is well illustrated in the tests. It's the behavior when there are multiple clusters (interspersed positionals) that can

[issue13966] Add disable_interspersed_args() to argparse.ArgumentParser

paul j3 added the comment: The optparse page gives a reason for disable_interspersed_args(): Use this if you have a command processor which runs another command which has options of its own and you want to make sure these options don’t get confused. For example, each command might have a

[issue13966] Add disable_interspersed_args() to argparse.ArgumentParser

paul j3 added the comment: Oops, I was wrong about this: Argparse doesn't prohibit all interspersed positionals. You could, for example, have one or more positionals with other nargs that could be interspersed. But the REMAINDER one has to be last. parser.add_argument('a')

[issue13966] Add disable_interspersed_args() to argparse.ArgumentParser

László Attila Tóth added the comment: Unfortunatelly the implementation bugous as of now. I wrote additional tests. self.parser = ErrorRaisingArgumentParser() self.parser.add_argument('-a', action='store_true') self.parser.add_argument('-b') self.parser.add_argument('rem',

[issue13966] Add disable_interspersed_args() to argparse.ArgumentParser

Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment: The argparse changes and tests look good. The new method needs to be documented. You can see some other things (e.g. Misc/NEWS) that also need to be updated by running make patchcheck as described here:

[issue13966] Add disable_interspersed_args() to argparse.ArgumentParser

László Attila Tóth laszlo.attila.t...@gmail.com added the comment: I added unit test, which revealed some bugs. These are fixe now. The attached file contains both the unit tests and the updated patch. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24546/argparse-disable_interspersed.patch

[issue13966] Add disable_interspersed_args() to argparse.ArgumentParser

Christophe Kalt k...@taranis.org added the comment: nice, thank you! -- nosy: +kalt ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13966 ___ ___

[issue13966] Add disable_interspersed_args() to argparse.ArgumentParser

Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- assignee: - bethard nosy: +bethard type: - enhancement versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13966

[issue13966] Add disable_interspersed_args() to argparse.ArgumentParser

Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment: The idea and patch seem okay to me. Needs tests though. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13966 ___

[issue13966] Add disable_interspersed_args() to argparse.ArgumentParser

New submission from László Attila Tóth laszlo.attila.t...@gmail.com: If someone ports his code from optparse to argparse, there is a limit, that options and non-options can be mixed by default, and this behaviour cannot be disabled easily, an extra '--' argument is required in the command