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

getattr(args, 'positional-arg')

This is another OK workaround for positional arguments:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('a-b')
args = parser.parse_args(['123'])
assert getattr(args, 'a-b') == '123'

Tested on Python 3.8.2.