Running with "run" argument considered ambigious

[ammaraskar]

Not sure if this belongs here but right now running bench.py with run brings up this error. It seems like there's an active issue for this: https://bugs.python.org/issue14365

> ..\python_d.exe bench.py run
usage: bench.py [-h] {run,compare,run_compare,list,list_groups} ...
bench.py: error: argument action: ambiguous choice: 'run' could match run, run_compare

As a workaround I changed my run to run_local in https://github.com/python/benchmarks/blob/master/benchmark/cli.py#L84
and
https://github.com/python/benchmarks/blob/master/benchmark/cli.py#L150
and
https://github.com/python/benchmarks/blob/master/benchmark/run.py#L445

[vstinner]

Strange. I'm unable to reproduce the issue on Fedora 24 with Python 2.7.11 nor Python 3.5.1.

[zware]

This appears to be a bug introduced in http://bugs.python.org/issue12713

[vstinner]

Why do you close the issue? We should fix it or workaround it.

[ammaraskar]

Well it's an upstream issue, no need to keep it open here, right?

[zware]

Because it was just introduced into 3.6 yesterday, and ought to be fixed (or reverted) very soon.

[vstinner]

Because it was just introduced into 3.6 yesterday, and ought to be fixed
(or reverted) very soon.

Oh, Ammar: you compiled manually the default branch of Python on Windows?

[ammaraskar]

Yup, latest default.

[vstinner]

Yup, latest default.

Oh ok, fine :-) Use an older version of argparse to workaround the issue (or an older version of the repository).

[vsajip]

That recent change to argparse which caused your breakage has now been reverted. Sorry :-(