Message 164702 - Python tracker

Message164702

Author	nejucomo
Recipients	docs@python, nejucomo
Date	2012-07-05.22:41:12
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It was not obvious from the documentation on argparse how to emulate the optparse.OptionParser.allow_interspersed_args feature. Please add something like the following to the section titled "Upgrading optparse code" (see: http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html#upgrading-optparse-code ) """ * If the optparse code sets allow_interspersed_args to False, then add an argparse positional argument with nargs=argparse.REMAINDER """

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It was not obvious from the documentation on argparse how to emulate the optparse.OptionParser.allow_interspersed_args feature.

Please add something like the following to the section titled "Upgrading optparse code" (see: http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html#upgrading-optparse-code )

"""
* If the optparse code sets allow_interspersed_args to False, then add an argparse positional argument with nargs=argparse.REMAINDER
"""

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