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

Concise and explicit but probably not always acceptable way would be to use vars():

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('a-b')
args = vars(parser.parse_args())

print(args['a-b'])