Title: Document `argparse.ArgumentParser.parse_args` order guarantee · Issue #143860 · python/cpython · GitHub
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Description: Feature or enhancement Proposal: See the linked discourse discussion for full details, TLDR: The parse_args doc says " args - List of strings to parse. …" The proposal is to add something like ‘, in normal order’ to the end of the senten...
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