[issue14191] argparse: nargs='*' doesn't get out-of-order positional parameters

[Steven Bethard]

Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> added the comment:

This behavior is intentional - positional arguments must be sequential, not broken up with optional (flag) arguments between. So this is a documentation bug.

Allowing positional arguments to be broken up with optional (flag) arguments between them would be a new feature. It would also break many current parsers, so it couldn't be turned on by default. A new constructor parameter or method or something would have to be added to ArgumentParser. Patches welcome.

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