Rafael Guterres Jeffman added the comment:
I don't think many users will try to use a boolean positional argument. I only
excited this behavior because I was writing an abstraction over argparse to
define the command line interface based on a configuration file, and I was
trying to add some
paul j3 added the comment:
'store_true/false' are subclasses of 'store_const'. All have a 'nargs=0'
value. It's that value which explains their behavior. ('append_const' would
also fall in this category)
In [2]: parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
In [3]: parser.add_argument('foo',
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
You think the behavior is wrong. Does it disagree with the doc? If not, this
is an design change (enhancement) issue limited to future version. If so, it
might be a bug that can be backported.
However, when I run the code on Windows with an argument
