[solved] Unable to search usernames that start with dash about mal HOT 6 CLOSED

Just tested it and it works, thanks man.

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Thanks for filling this issue. Yes, seems a really old bug of argparse. Some funny answers of people wanting optparser get be un-deprecated.

For now, I don't know any workaround. Maybe would be possible escape the argument as /-Bass and remove / internally since this character is not possible inside of username because conflicts with HTTP URL. But this solution is a quite awful... and I think that there is no hope for argparse since is a bug of almost 8 years.

I need think a little about it.

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Actually, there is a workaround:

mal list --user=-Bass

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Since this is a problem with argparse and not correlated with mal, I'm closing this. I hope you enjoy the software, @sothym

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Strange. Why doesn't mal list --user -- -Bass work? The -- is meant to tell the arg parser that every arg from here on out is to be interpreted literally. I.e. ignore -. I always implement this in my user interfaces. And it also exists in the coreutils:

cd -- -some-dir # cd to ./-some-dir/
rm -- -r # remove the file named "-r"
ls -l -- -l # lists -l if it exists, in long form

I would absolutely expect an arg parsing library to implement this, so it's strange that it doesn't.

Either way, good workaround.

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Yes, this is a common thing on gnu stuff, but until I now argparse is not correlated to gnu software.

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