[issue10981] options starting with -- match substrings

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[issue10981] options starting with -- match substrings

New submission from David Caro : When parsing option like --optionname, --option will match it too example: >>> import argparse >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> parser.add_argument('--superstring') _StoreAction(option_strings=['--superstring'],