New submission from Nefarious CodeMonkey, Jr. <nejucomo@users.sourceforge.net>: It was not obvious from the documentation on argparse how to emulate the optparse.OptionParser.allow_interspersed_args feature. Please add something like the following to the section titled "Upgrading optparse code" (see: http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html#upgrading-optparse-code ) """ * If the optparse code sets allow_interspersed_args to False, then add an argparse positional argument with nargs=argparse.REMAINDER """ ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 164702 nosy: docs@python, nejucomo priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: argparse documentation: Improve optparse section regarding allow_interspersed_args type: enhancement versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15258> _______________________________________