[New-bugs-announce] [issue41253] unittest -h shows a flag -s but it doesn't work

[Faris Chugthai]

New submission from Faris Chugthai <farischugthai at gmail.com>:

I'm not 100% sure what's happening here but running:

`python -m unittest -h`

shows a flag `-s` as does

`python -m unittest discover -h`.

When run as:

`python -m unittest discover -s test`

the command runs correctly but when run as

`python -m unittest -s test`

the command fails.

```sh

$ python -m unittest -s test  
                      
usage: python -m unittest [-h] [-v] [-q] [--locals] [-f]                                [-c] [-b] [-k TESTNAMEPATTERNS]                               [tests [tests ...]

       
python -m unittest: error: unrecognized arguments: -s

```

Which I believe to be a bug as the help generated by the discover subcommand indicates that the flag -s should be recognized.

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components: Tests
messages: 373372
nosy: Faris Chugthai
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: unittest -h shows a flag -s but it doesn't work
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.8

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