code: def get_parsed_args(self, comp_words):
          
          active_parsers = self._patch_argument_parser()
  
          parsed_args = argparse.Namespace()
  
          self.completing = True
          if USING_PYTHON2:
              # Python 2 argparse only properly works with byte strings.
              comp_words = [ensure_bytes(word) for word in comp_words]
  
          try:
              active_parsers[0].parse_known_args(comp_words, namespace=parsed_args)
          except BaseException:  # pylint: disable=broad-except
              pass
  
          self.completing = False
          return parsed_args
docs: gets the parsed args from a patched parser