Trenton Bricken added the comment:
Thanks for all of these replies.
The functionality is that the user adds --flag True False and then all of the
other parameters are run with True. And then again with False.
I thought this was a bug because of the confusing type=bool behavior
New submission from Trenton Bricken :
This is a bug with argparse.
Say I have:
parser.add_argument('--verbose', type=bool, action='store', nargs='+',
default = [False],
help='turns on verbosity')
If in the command line I have "--verbose
Trenton Bricken added the comment:
Update:
I was being dumb before, the problem still remains but my work around
previously was wrong. This is the new workaround:
def buildBool(arg):
if arg == 'False':
return False
else:
return True
Trenton Bricken added the comment:
Thank you for your quick and helpful reply.
The problem with your solution is twofold:
1. it adds some cognitive load in needing to remember whether or not the flag
defaults to True or False and thus whether or not you need to add it. It is
easier for me
