New submission from Clint Olsen <clint.ol...@gmail.com>:
When I run the following program, I expect args.run to be 'foo' if no argument
is specified on the command-line.
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('foo', default='bar')
args = parser.parse_args()
$ ./test
usage: test [-h] foo
test: error: the following arguments are required: foo
However if I specify nargs='*' this error goes away.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but this seems non-intuitive to me.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 386770
nosy: Clint Olsen
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Argparse complains argument required when default is provided
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.8
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