Is there a way to stop arguments from being interpreted as flags?

[Mrfiregem]

Most cli programs allow specifying -- to make it so any arguments to the right of it are not treated as flags, even if they take the form of -a or --arg. Is there any way to implement this currently with argparse? For example:

# '--arg2' should be treated as a positional argument after '--'
./my_command -ab --arg2 -- arg1 --arg2 arg3

[hellflame]

Hi there, can you give me a specific use case of this feature? or the program that provide this feature and the way you use this --

[Mrfiregem]

Sure. Most standard Linux or GNU programs like cat, ls, rm, etc. support using -- to turn off flag parsing for any argument after it. For example, on my Mac computer:

bash-3.2$ echo 'hello' > --text_file
bash-3.2$ cat --text_file 
cat: illegal option -- -
usage: cat [-belnstuv] [file ...]
bash-3.2$ cat -- --text_file 
hello

For my specific use case, I'm writing a program that calls another program, and if I want to pass any flags to the 2nd program, I could put them after -- so my Go program with your package wouldn't error out or erroniously treat them as its own flags. E.g. go run main.go --flag1_for_go_program ls --flag2_for_go_program positional_argument -- --flag_for_ls

[hellflame]

I see. Arguments after -- will be treated as positional. This is quite reasonable, I think I'll add this feature soon.
Thanks for the advice!

[hellflame]

Hi there. The feature is published on v1.12. You can have some try now.
If there's more requests or questions, feel free to open an issue. Thanks for the advice again.

[Mrfiregem]

Thank you for the quick implementation, looks great!