Having options in argparse with a dash

Question

I want to have some options in argparse module such as --pm-export however when I try to use it like args.pm-export I get the error that there is n

Answer 1

Dashes are converted to underscores:

import argparse
pa = argparse.ArgumentParser()
pa.add_argument('--foo-bar')
args = pa.parse_args(['--foo-bar', '24'])
print args # Namespace(foo_bar='24')