paul j3 added the comment: This issue has already been raise in
http://bugs.python.org/issue9334 argparse does not accept options taking arguments beginning with dash (regression from optparse) There I proposed leaving '_negative_number_matcher' unchanged, but only use it to set '_has_negative_number_optionals'. Testing whether argument strings are numbers or not is better done with 'complex()'. if not self._has_negative_number_optionals: try: complex(arg_string) return None except ValueError: pass That was my first patch, and I haven't looked at it much since then, other than testing that it is compatible with a number of other proposed patches. ---------- nosy: +paul.j3, r.david.murray _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22672> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
