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Author	paul.j3
Recipients	paul.j3, rhettinger, terence.honles
Date	2021-04-18.05:46:28
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This is a well known (if not fixed) issue - if subparsers is required, then a dest is needed to give a working error message. Looks like we've variously talked about documenting the requirement, or using some sort of substitute for the missing name. One of my higher-voted SO answers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23349349/argparse-with-required-subparser/23354355#23354355 https://bugs.python.org/issue29298 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18564 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/3027 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/3680

This is a well known (if not fixed) issue - if subparsers is required, then a dest is needed to give a working error message.  Looks like we've variously talked about documenting the requirement, or using some sort of substitute for the missing name.

One of my higher-voted SO answers: 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23349349/argparse-with-required-subparser/23354355#23354355

https://bugs.python.org/issue29298

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18564

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/3027

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/3680

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