Python argparse ignore unrecognised arguments
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']
You can puts the remaining parts into a new argument with parser.add_argument('args', nargs=argparse.REMAINDER) if you want to use them.