Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com> added the comment: Sorry, I think I confused you, please post that patch here. This issue is for documenting the workarounds, issue 9338 is for actually solving the problem. I glanced at your patch on that issue, and it looks basically okay, though I'd like to see a few more tests for the help messages to cover things like: -x X A # no -- -x [X [X ...]] -y Y [Y ...] # no -- -x [X] -- A B # needs -- -x X [X ...] # needs -- -x [X [X ...]] # needs -- It's possible the first two are already covered by the other tests, but at least the last three should all be tested for. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9182> _______________________________________