[issue25058] Right square bracket argparse 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 ---

[issue25058] Right square bracket argparse metavar

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[issue25058] Right square bracket argparse 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 ---

[issue25058] Right square bracket argparse metavar

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 ---

[issue25058] Right square bracket argparse metavar

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[issue25058] Right square bracket argparse metavar

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 --

[issue25058] Right square bracket argparse metavar

Changes by Martin Panter : -- resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed superseder: -> argparse assertion failure with brackets in metavars ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue25058] Right square bracket argparse metavar

paul j3 added the comment: This assertion error caused by brackets (and other 'odd' characters) in the metavar is a known issue. http://bugs.python.org/issue11874 http://bugs.python.org/issue14046 The formatter that handles line wrapping of the usage line is fragile. -- nosy: +paul.j3

[issue25058] Right square bracket argparse metavar

Juan Jimenez-Anca added the comment: My apologies for the formatting of the last line. This is my issue corrected: When trying to assign the metavar in add_argument() method of argparse module I'm unable to include characters after a right square bracket. Trying to set something like this: me

[issue25058] Right square bracket argparse metavar

New submission from Juan Jimenez-Anca: When trying to assign the metavar in add_argument() method of argparse module I'm unable to include characters after a right square bracket. Trying to set something like this: metavar="[host:database:collection:]field" would raise an AssertionError, whic