What I have when creating a parser based off of cmd.cmd2 for a program here is the relevant code parser = cmd2.argparse_custom.Cmd2ArgumentParser(description='open', add_help=False) open_mission_args.add_argument( '-o', '--open', action='store', type=str, metavar='NAME', default='', dest='open', help='create and open new mission' ) Basically I want to set the name with running myprogram --open=<my_name> for my name I have to have it support all names with alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores. Everything works except myprogram --open=-- it is parsing this as [] I am assume it thinks I am starting a new argument is this a bug I thought the type=str, argument took care of this. Edit the only thing I can think of that would work is nargs=argparse.REMAINDER but that would require post parsing which I don't want to do. Continue reading...
