Spaces now only signal a positional if the argument string doesn't start with an optional declared in the parser.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/argparse.py b/argparse.py
index bf3f277..05dbffb 100644
--- a/argparse.py
+++ b/argparse.py
@@ -1937,10 +1937,6 @@ class ArgumentParser(_AttributeHolder, _ActionsContainer):
         if not arg_string:

             return None

 

-        # if it contains a space, it was meant to be a positional

-        if ' ' in arg_string:

-            return None

-

         # if it doesn't start with a prefix, it was meant to be positional

         if not arg_string[0] in self.prefix_chars:

             return None

@@ -1978,6 +1974,10 @@ class ArgumentParser(_AttributeHolder, _ActionsContainer):
             if not self._has_negative_number_optionals:

                 return None

 

+        # if it contains a space, it was meant to be a positional

+        if ' ' in arg_string:

+            return None

+

         # it was meant to be an optional but there is no such option

         # in this parser (though it might be a valid option in a subparser)

         return None, arg_string, None