[issue16988] argparse: PARSER option for nargs not documented

[paul j3]

paul j3 added the comment:

I've experimented with an argparse adaptation of profile.py:

    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(usage=usage)
    parser.add_argument('-o', '--outfile', dest="outfile",
        help="Save stats to <outfile>", metavar="path")
    parser.add_argument('-s', '--sort', dest="sort",
        help="Sort order when printing to stdout ...",
        default=-1)
    parser.add_argument('args', nargs=argparse.PARSER,
        metavar="scriptfile [arg] ...") 
        # expect at least one positional, a py module

It is somewhat like subparsers, but without defined subparser choices.  Or you could say that PARSER (A...) is to REMAINDER (...) as '+' is to '*'.  It requires at least one argument.  I could, just as well, have created two arguments, 'scriptfile' and 'args' (with '...').

I don't know if that is an argument for documenting it or not.

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