Pytest options with more than one metavar don't have the correct help

[okulynyak]

automated_test_scripts\tests>pytest -v -s --firefox-preference="browser.helperApps.neverAsk.openFile"="application/excel" test_login.py"
i got error:
usage: pytest [options] [file_or_dir] [file_or_dir] [...]
pytest: error: argument --firefox-preference: expected 2 argument(s).
I tried different combination and all the time i got the same error.
I using a synthax in command line from >pytest -h

Here is link for temporary resolve of this problem: pytest-dev/pytest-selenium#86 (comment)

Thanks for your time

[davehunt]

To give a little more context, pytest-selenium uses a command line option that appends values to a list, and expects two arguments. In the --help text this is indicated by the --name=value1=value2 prompt, however this doesn't work as expected. It is necessary to use --name value1 value2 instead.

[nicoddemus]

Thanks @davehunt and @okulynyak for the report.

Not sure how easy it is to fix this though, pytest's argument parsing is quite complicated (I think).

[The-Compiler]

FWIW --name=value1=value2 for an argument with two values seems like an odd syntax to me, does that work with other tools? IMHO the right thing to do here is just fixing the --help output to show --name value1 value2.

[okulynyak]

Hi. As for me, i vote for The-Compiler says: "IMHO the right thing to do here is just fixing the --help output to show --name value1 value2."
it is a weird a little bit to see something like --something=something=something

[nicoddemus]

Oh right sorry, TBH I just glanced at the issue before bed and thought we would have to change the parsing of the option. My bad.

I agree, we should just update the help message.