Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> added the comment: I always forget that not all programs follow getopt-style parsing rules, thanks for the reminder. ---------- keywords: +easy resolution: -> accepted title: argparse: optional argument w/ narg='+' conflicts w/ positional argsument -> document “--” as a way to distinguish option w/ narg='+' from positional argument in argparse _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9182> _______________________________________