Python argparse ignore unrecognised arguments

by

Replace

args = parser.parse_args()

with 

args, unknown = parser.parse_known_args()

For example,

import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--foo')
args, unknown = parser.parse_known_args(['--foo', 'BAR', 'spam'])
print(args)
# Namespace(foo='BAR')
print(unknown)
# ['spam']

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