[issue14046] argparse: assertion failure if optional argument has square/round brackets in metavar

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 4e6bd247aa955056626bf0cf8dc1c65a587b871f by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '2.7': bpo-11874: fix assertion failure in argparse metavar handling (GH-1826) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4e6bd247aa955056626bf0cf8dc1c65a587b871f

[issue14046] argparse: assertion failure if optional argument has square/round brackets in metavar

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[issue14046] argparse: assertion failure if optional argument has square/round brackets in metavar

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 842985f6c70484ed7b8fc30d0bc05aec73236a98 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-11874: fix assertion failure in argparse metavar handling (GH-1826) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/842985f6c70484ed7b8fc30d0bc05aec73236a98

[issue14046] argparse: assertion failure if optional argument has square/round brackets in metavar

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miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 376c272d68cca0975ff0be3d12abf5f67da342d7 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.6': bpo-11874: fix assertion failure in argparse metavar handling (GH-1826) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/376c272d68cca0975ff0be3d12abf5f67da342d7

[issue14046] argparse: assertion failure if optional argument has square/round brackets in metavar

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Nick Coghlan added the comment: New changeset 66f02aa32f1e4adb9f24cf186f8c495399d5ce9b by Nick Coghlan (wim glenn) in branch 'master': bpo-11874: fix assertion failure in argparse metavar handling (GH-1826) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/66f02aa32f1e4adb9f24cf186f8c495399d5ce9b

[issue14046] argparse: assertion failure if optional argument has square/round brackets in metavar

Changes by Martin Panter : -- status: open -> closed type: crash -> behavior ___ Python tracker ___

[issue14046] argparse: assertion failure if optional argument has square/round brackets in metavar

John Jones added the comment: Im kind of surprised this bug has lasted for so many years :) setting part_regexp to: r'\(.*?\(.*?\).*?\)+|\[.*?\[.*?\].*?\]+|\S+' fixes the issue for me, although its not very elegant -- nosy: +John Jones ___ Python

[issue14046] argparse: assertion failure if optional argument has square/round brackets in metavar

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[issue14046] argparse: assertion failure if optional argument has square/round brackets in metavar

Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment: Yes, this is a known bug (Issue 11874). Patches welcome. -- resolution: - duplicate superseder: - argparse assertion failure with brackets in metavars ___ Python tracker

[issue14046] argparse: assertion failure if optional argument has square/round brackets in metavar

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[issue14046] argparse: assertion failure if optional argument has square/round brackets in metavar

New submission from Mansour mans...@oxplot.com: I have a web server written in python which takes an optional argument telling it what IP and port to bind to. Here's the definition: parser.add_argument( '-b', '--bind', metavar=[ip]:port, type=unicode, help=IP and port to bind to. )