[New-bugs-announce] [issue34046] subparsers -> add_parser doesn't support hyphen char '-'

[Nir Barel]

New submission from Nir Barel <nir_barel at bmc.com>:

parent_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=False)
main_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='app_cli')

service_subparsers = main_parser.add_subparsers(title="service",                                        dest="service_command", )

service_parser = service_subparsers.add_parser("-dr", help="sample help", parents=[parent_parser])

service_parser.add_argument("-old_host",help="my old host", dest="oldHost", required=False)

args = main_parser.parse_args()


when I try to run the app_cli -dr I am getting an error "error:unrecognized arguments: -dr"

when I try to run the app_cli with -dr -h I am getting the help of the main application and not the help of the service subparser

only if I change '-dr' to 'dr' it works as expected, but I need to support the hyphen for all arguments

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 321057
nosy: nir_barel at bmc.com
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: subparsers -> add_parser doesn't support hyphen char '-'
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7

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