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Author rive-n
Recipients lys.nikolaou, rive-n
Date 2022-03-18.12:28:43
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Hi again. 

previous solution with:

```python3
        try:
            namespace, args = self._parse_known_args(args, namespace)
            if hasattr(namespace, _UNRECOGNIZED_ARGS_ATTR):
                args.extend(getattr(namespace, _UNRECOGNIZED_ARGS_ATTR))
                delattr(namespace, _UNRECOGNIZED_ARGS_ATTR)
            return namespace, args
        except ArgumentError:
            err = _sys.exc_info()[1]
            self.error(str(err))
```

Is not working at all. So i spent some time (a lot of time) to make changes in source code. 
I figured out exactly how the algorithm works, I read about 3,000 lines of code. And here's what I came up with:
argparse.py:
line 1774:  parse_known_args
basically this function calling protected one on line 1800: 
amespace, args = self._parse_known_args(args, namespace)

This one is making magic. But we need to check line 1856: 
def take_action(action, argument_strings, option_string=None):

This function creating objects of necessary classes. For example:
_SubParsersAction (problem in it). 

Before fix:

```python3
    def __call__(self, parser, namespace, values, option_string=None):
        parser_name = values[0]
        arg_strings = values[1:]

        # set the parser name if requested
        if self.dest is not SUPPRESS:
            setattr(namespace, self.dest, parser_name)

        # select the parser
        try:
            parser = self._name_parser_map[parser_name]
        except KeyError:
            args = {'parser_name': parser_name,
                    'choices': ', '.join(self._name_parser_map)}
            msg = _('unknown parser %(parser_name)r (choices: %(choices)s)') % args
            raise ArgumentError(self, msg)

        # parse all the remaining options into the namespace
        # store any unrecognized options on the object, so that the top
        # level parser can decide what to do with them

        # In case this subparser defines new defaults, we parse them
        # in a new namespace object and then update the original
        # namespace for the relevant parts.
        subnamespace, arg_strings = parser.parse_known_args(arg_strings, None)
        for key, value in vars(subnamespace).items():
            setattr(namespace, key, value)

        if arg_strings:
            vars(namespace).setdefault(_UNRECOGNIZED_ARGS_ATTR, [])
            getattr(namespace, _UNRECOGNIZED_ARGS_ATTR).extend(arg_strings)
```

After fix:
```python3
    def __call__(self, parser, namespace, values, option_string=None, arg_strings_pattern:list =None):
        o_amount = arg_strings_pattern.count("O")
        if not o_amount:
            raise ValueError("No Os found")
        o_start, o_stop, indexes = arg_strings_pattern.index('O'), len(arg_strings_pattern), []
        print(parser)
        try:
            while arg_strings_pattern.index('O', o_start, o_stop):
                indexes.append(arg_strings_pattern.index('O', o_start, o_stop))
                o_start = arg_strings_pattern.index('O', o_start + 1, o_stop)
        except ValueError:
            pass

        for parser in range(o_amount):
            parser_name = values[indexes[parser] - 1] # indexes[parser] could give int (real index)
            arg_strings = values[indexes[parser]: indexes[(parser + 1)] - 1]  if parser < len(indexes) - 1 else \
            values[indexes[parser]:] # could give all data

            # set the parser name if requested
            if self.dest is not SUPPRESS:
                setattr(namespace, self.dest, parser_name)

            # select the parser
            try:
                parser = self._name_parser_map[parser_name]
            except KeyError:
                args = {'parser_name': parser_name,
                        'choices': ', '.join(self._name_parser_map)}
                msg = _('unknown parser %(parser_name)r (choices: %(choices)s)') % args
                raise ArgumentError(self, msg)

            # parse all the remaining options into the namespace
            # store any unrecognized options on the object, so that the top
            # level parser can decide what to do with them

            # In case this subparser defines new defaults, we parse them
            # in a new namespace object and then update the original
            # namespace for the relevant parts.
            subnamespace, arg_strings = parser.parse_known_args(arg_strings, None)
            for key, value in vars(subnamespace).items():
                setattr(namespace, key, value)

            if arg_strings:
                vars(namespace).setdefault(_UNRECOGNIZED_ARGS_ATTR, [])
                getattr(namespace, _UNRECOGNIZED_ARGS_ATTR).extend(arg_strings)
```

That's not the best solution but this solution works.
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