@lulouie, thanks for your PR! By analyzing the history of the files in this pull request, we identified @kbkaiser, @terryjreedy and @tiran to be potential reviewers.

Please merge this <3

Such an important feature that makes debugging of programs with mandatory arguments impossible without ugly code change. At least for argparse-based scripts, and argparse is a part of the default library...

It would be nice if this would move forward.

@louisom well, this needs certainly rebase on the top of the current master to fix those conflicts.

Three requests in 10 days raises the priority of this issue. As explained on the issue, I am closing this in favor of starting fresh.
@mcepl, @Forkest, @Blacksilver42 If you have tracker accounts and add yourselves as nosy to bpo-5680, you will ge notified of a new PR and can test and comment on the design.

@terryjreedy, would you like me to open a new PR with this one as the starting point? Since this has 'unknown repository', we wouldn't be able to push to it anyway.

The new pull request is #13763