argparse is maybe-okay for simple things, but I don't use it for pretty much anything anymore. Have you tried one of the other extant packages that provide higher-level, more-powerful option handling?
I use `click` extensively for complex multiple-command CLI tools.
It's probably a case of #bikesheding, but I've been really unhappy with the #python 's #argparse library for a while now. It's okay for run of the mill tools, but fails for more complex command line tools that have subcommands and complex options like --no-except to negate an option.
This is my first cut writing a command line parser for a #cli
https://github.com/sumanthvepa/experiments/tree/develop/python/parse-dralithus-cmdline
TIL: #Python's #argparse module cannot parse arguments that start with a dash. It always expects them to be a flag and then throws an error if that flag is not defined.
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/61252
My use case: I have a command with subparsers/subcommands, and I'd like one of these subcommands to just take all of argv that follows its name and pass it on to someplace else.
mycmd subcmd foo -bar --baz
subcmd.add_argument("args", nargs="*") doesn't work.
Guess I'll have to resort to a hack.
Please welcome @savannah as the newest member of the Python core team!
She has recently been doing lots of excellent work on the new JIT and giving argparse some long-overdue attention.
https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-savannah-ostrowski/70302
Savannah is the 9th new team member so far this year, which is the most we've had since 2012 
If you’re using #Python’s #argparse module to parse CLI arguments and want to have `--foo` and `--no-foo` flags, check out `action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction`, which automatically creates `--no-foo` for you: https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#action
parser.add_argument('--foo', action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction)
Requires 3.9 though. Simple solution for 3.8:
parser.add_argument('--foo', action='store_true')
parser.add_argument('--no-foo', dest='foo', action='store_false')
parser.set_defaults(foo=True)
WHY 
