[issue40303] argparse parse_args args parameter bug or intended

Gharg added the comment: Hi Rémi and Paul, thanks for your quick response. It is as i expected and i will use 'store_true'/'store_false' to resolve my problem. I see this issue as resolved and close it. -- resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed

[issue40303] argparse parse_args args parameter bug or intended

paul j3 added the comment: 'type=bool' doesn't get any special treatment. 'bool' is a builtin Python function. test with def mybool(astr): print("mybool:", astr, len(astr), bool(astr)) return bool(astr) The trick to getting a False value is to pass a genuinely empty st

[issue40303] argparse parse_args args parameter bug or intended

Rémi Lapeyre added the comment: Hi Gharg, this is expected, both because your program would not actually receive `--boolean=''` but `--boolean=`: ➜ ~ cat test.py import sys print(sys.argv) ➜ ~ python test.py --boolean='' ['test.py', '--boolean='] and the way the type argument works. You

[issue40303] argparse parse_args args parameter bug or intended

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[issue40303] argparse parse_args args parameter bug or intended

New submission from Gharg : I have a problem regarding args parameter of ArgumentParser.parse_args. For example: - import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument("--boolean", type=bool) parsed_args = parser.parse_args(["--boolean=''"])