Theodore Turocy added the comment:
I am attaching a patch against py3k which adds some tests to demonstrate the
original bug when issuing a Request() to a ftp:// URL.
To do this, the tests add checks for user and passwd. The previous version of
checks asserted that the .user and .passwd of
Theodore Turocy added the comment:
What is the appropriate behavior for long options when '-' is not one of the
accepted prefix_chars? All of '-h', '--help', '-v', and '--version' are
hardcoded in the ctor. If, for instance, prefix_chars=&#
Theodore Turocy added the comment:
Looking at the test fixtures that exercise argparse, it appears that the
intended behavior when '-' is not a prefix_char is to accept a doubling of any
of the prefix_chars for long arguments. That is, if '-' is not present in
prefix_ch
Theodore Turocy added the comment:
I was less than clear in what I wrote last night, Doug. What I mean is that
the idiom "::foo" for a long argument, instead of the more standard-looking
"--foo", appears in the test suite. This suggests to me that the intended
behavior
Theodore Turocy added the comment:
I'm uploading a new version of my patch which includes a proposed clarification
to the documentation about the behavior in this case. Doug, does this make the
documentation clearer to you? It is now explicit about the behavior for
formulating the
