Issue 88 in argparse: Bug with negative numbers in scientific notation

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Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium

New issue 88 by midnight...@gmail.com: Bug with negative numbers in
scientific notation
http://code.google.com/p/argparse/issues/detail?id=88

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Set up a parser with at least one optional -foo argument, and at least
one required positional float argument.
2. Parse a command line with a negative number in scientific notation.
3. Profit?

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expected: Proper acceptance of the negative number as the argument value.
Experienced: "error: the following arguments are required: [name of
required arg]"

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

1.1 (included with Python 3.3), on Windows 7

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Comment #1 on issue 88 by midnight...@gmail.com: Bug with negative numbers

in scientific notation
http://code.google.com/p/argparse/issues/detail?id=88

Never mind, reporting it in the wrong place.