I’m trying to use the argparse python module for a project, the code looks like this

import argparse

def main():
    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    mode = p.add_mutually_exclusive_group(required=True)

    mode.add_argument("-f", "--file", type=str)
    mode.add_argument("-d", "--directory", type=str)
    p.add_argument("-o", "--output",
                    default="stdout",
                    type=str,
                    required=False)
                    
    args = p.parse_args()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Here’s the problem

When I try to run it like this

python script.py path/to/my

And then press tab, it gives me a list of BOTH directories and files, that’s all fine

HOWEVER, if I do it like this

python script.py -f path/to/my

And then press tab, it just completes it already and throws a directory in there, if there are more directories, then it just gives me a list of directories, it completely ignores the files, which is quite frustrating…

I have no idea where the problem is…

Any ideas?