[issue9334] argparse does not accept options taking arguments beginning with dash (regression from optparse)

[Steven Bethard]

Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> added the comment:

Thanks for the analysis Eric. Yeah, it does seem like it's not possible to implement this feature request while still supporting optionals with variable number arguments.

@andersk: Would the restriction to only having flags with a fixed number of arguments be acceptable for your use case?

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versions:  -Python 3.1

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