New submission from A. Skrobov:
Python 2.7.3 (default, Dec 18 2014, 19:10:20)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
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>>> from argparse import ArgumentParser
>>> parser = ArgumentParser()
>>> parser.add_argument("--foo", help="foo", action='store_const')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/argparse.py", line 1281, in add_argument
action = action_class(**kwargs)
TypeError: __init__() takes at least 4 arguments (4 given)
>>>
First, the exception message is entirely unhelpful (you wanted at least 4, you
got 4, what's your problem?)
Second, adding "const=None" to the invocation makes it succeed; but, according
to https://docs.python.org/2/library/argparse.html#const this argument defaults
to "None", so it shouldn't be necessary to specify it explicitly. Thus, either
the documentation or the implementation is wrong.
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation, Extension Modules
messages: 252106
nosy: A. Skrobov, docs@python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: TypeError: __init__() takes at least 4 arguments (4 given)
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
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<http://bugs.python.org/issue25299>
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