Ryan Hartkopf added the comment: Personally, 'options' is the first word that comes to mind other than 'arguments' (which is confusing for obvious reasons). But I think we can all agree that any of these candidates are less ambiguous than 'optional arguments'! It's been 4 years, let's put this one to bed! ---------- nosy: +rhartkopf Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file37200/argparse_option.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue9694 _______________________________________