VisIt doesn't handle the case where scripts have arguments named the same as VisIt arguments #19616
Description
Taken from a conversation with a user:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import argparse
import visit # type: ignore
def cli_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('-nn', type=int)
#parser.add_argument('-nodes', type=int)
return parser.parse_args(visit.Argv())
def main():
print(cli_args())
main()
exit()so if you do visit -nowin -cli -s test.py -nn 1 you'll get an error but if you comment out the -nn and uncomment the -nodes in cli_args and then run visit -nowin -cli -s test.py -nodes 1 then it works
What are our thoughts on this? Should we support this case? At the very least it's a pitfall users can run into.