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Author paul.j3
Recipients bethard, eric.smith, gcbirzan, jeffknupp, kalt, paul.j3, python-dev, r.david.murray, wt
Date 2013-04-14.06:48:17
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This patch removes only one '--', the one that put a '-' in the 'arg_strings_pattern'.  It does this in 'consume_positionals' right before calling 'take_action'.  As before it does not do this if nargs is PARSER or REMAINDER.

test_argparse.py has two DoubleDashRemoval cases, that attempt to highlight the changes from production (delete all --) and development (delete first -- in each positional group) versions.

I have not made any changes to the documentation.  All it says now is:

"If you have positional arguments that must begin with - and don’t look like negative numbers, you can insert the pseudo-argument '--' which tells parse_args() that everything after that is a positional argument:"
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2013-04-14 06:48:18paul.j3setrecipients: + paul.j3, bethard, eric.smith, kalt, r.david.murray, python-dev, wt, jeffknupp, gcbirzan
2013-04-14 06:48:18paul.j3setmessageid: <1365922098.42.0.046555317679.issue13922@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2013-04-14 06:48:18paul.j3linkissue13922 messages
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