argparse - specify order of argument parsing?

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/31/2013 2:13 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 8/31/2013 1:11 PM, Eduardo Alvarez wrote:
>> When using argparse, is there a way to specify in what order arguments
>> get parsed?
>
> I expect argparse to forward iterate the sequence of arguments that it
> receives.

Aside from the environment variable solution, you could search sys.argv 
for 'config=filename' and remove it and process it *before* you invoke 
argparse.

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Terry Jan Reedy