[issue9334] argparse does not accept options taking arguments beginning with dash (regression from optparse)

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

It seems like reasonable request to me to be able to allow such arguments, especially since optparse did and we want people to be able to use argparse as a replacement. Though in general I find argparse's default behavior more useful.  Since argparse has been released, I'm thinking this still has to be a feature request, since argparse is *not* a drop-in replacement for optparse.

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nosy: +bethard, r.david.murray
stage:  -> unit test needed
type:  -> feature request
versions:  -Python 2.7, Python 3.3

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