Nathan Naze added the comment:
> It does 'bool(value)', and 'bool("False")' is True, since "False" is a
> non-empty string.
Yes, I understand this. It's fine to mark as "working as intended", but coming
from other flag-parsing libraries, I find the behavior unintuitive and do not
understand the utility of accepting arbitrary strings given the potential for
user confusion. We uncovered this behavior debugging a script used internally
at Google.
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