[issue36863] argparse doesn't like options in the middle of arguments

[paul j3]

paul j3 <ajipanca at gmail.com> added the comment:

This is intended behavior of multi-nargs positionals.  The 'one' string is consumed by the 'file' argument, and there's no positional argument left to consume the other strings.  

The topic was raised and discussed previously  

https://bugs.python.org/issue14191 -argparse doesn't allow optionals within positionals

The fix is to use 'parser.parse_intermixed_args()', as documented in

https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#intermixed-parsing

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nosy: +paul.j3
resolution:  -> duplicate
stage: test needed -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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