Message304184
if you execute the code below, mutually exclusive agrs are separated by '|' as expected. but if you uncomment the 1 line down there, then the args list will be too long, and as argparse tries to wrap the args around, it drops all '|'s which semantically destroys the intended syntax of the arguments.
import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
group.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true")
group.add_argument("-q", "--quiet", action="store_true")
group.add_argument("-x", metavar='X', type=str, help="the base", nargs='?')
group.add_argument("-y", metavar='Y', type=str, help="the exponent", nargs='?')
group.add_argument("z", metavar='Z', type=str, help="the exponent", nargs='?')
group.add_argument("z", metavar='Z', type=str, help="the exponent", nargs='?')
group.add_argument("z", metavar='Z', type=str, help="the exponent", nargs='?')
group.add_argument("z", metavar='Z', type=str, help="the exponent", nargs='?')
group.add_argument("z", metavar='Z', type=str, help="the exponent", nargs='?')
group.add_argument("z", metavar='Z', type=str, help="the exponent", nargs='?')
group.add_argument("z", metavar='Z', type=str, help="the exponent", nargs='?')
#group.add_argument("z", metavar='Z', type=str, help="the exponent", nargs='?')
args = parser.parse_args() |
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