paul j3 <[email protected]> added the comment:
Despite the name, the 'type' parameter specifies a function, not a Python
class.
The only string that produces False is the empty one: bool(''). So 'type=bool'
is valid Python, even if it isn't useful.
With `nargs='+'` there's no problem with providing strings like 'False',
'true', 'no', 'oui', 'niet', but if you want to convert those to boolean
True/False values, you need to write your own 'type' function.
There was a recent bug/issue that proposed providing such a function (or
importing it from another module), and shadowing the existing 'bool' function,
but that has been rejected (I think). It isn't really needed, and the proposed
solution was too language specific.
Seems to me that expecting your user to provide an open ended list of 'True
False False True' strings would be rather confusing, or at least require a
complicated 'help' string. In any case it's not a common enough case to
require any changes to the core argparse functionality.
In sum, it isn't clear what the bug is, or what patch you expect. This sounds
more like a StackOverflow question, than a bug report.
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