Message 184180 - Python tracker
We need to be careful about when or where _negative_number_match is changed. " We basically do: parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(...) parser._negative_number_matcher = re.compile(r'^-.+$') " This changes the value for the parser itself, but not for the groups (_optionals, _positionals) or any subparsers. The code takes special care to make sure that the related property: _has_negative_number_optionals is properly shared among all these ActionContainers.