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Author Alan Evangelista
Recipients Alan Evangelista
Date 2017-03-09.20:35:40
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Message-id <1489091740.64.0.424181036659.issue29777@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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If you have a argument named --<prefix> in a subparser and two arguments named --<prefix><any_suffix)> in the main parser and call the Python executable with

python <script.py> --<prefix>

argparse fails with:

error: ambiguous option: --<prefix> could match --<prefix><suffix1>, --<prefix><suffix2>

This probably happens due to how the argument abbreviation parsing is implemented. Is it possible to support disabling argument abbreviation in Python 2.7, as it is done in Python 3?
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