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ArgumentParser maps dash to underscore in flags, but not positional arguments?

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Date Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:28:34 -0400
Subject ArgumentParser maps dash to underscore in flags, but not positional arguments?
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I'm using Python 2.7.3.

It looks like ArgumentParser maps "--foo-bar" to "foo_bar" in the argument namespace, but doesn't do the same kind of mapping for positional arguments.  Is this intentional?  I can't find in the docs where it describes this mapping, but it's certainly convenient, and seems wrong that it doesn't do it everywhere.

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from argparse import ArgumentParser

parser = ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("upload-dir")
parser.add_argument("--file-name")
args = parser.parse_args()
print args
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$ python args.py  x
Namespace(file_name=None, upload-dir='x')


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