[issue27153] Default value shown by argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter is backwards for action='store_false'

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[issue27153] Default value shown by argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter is backwards for action='store_false'

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[issue27153] Default value shown by argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter is backwards for action='store_false'

R. David Murray added the comment: The message is correct. The default value of foo is True. It would be just as misleading to say default: False, since that would imply the default value of foo was false. It also makes no sense to think it would mean the default value of 'no-foo' is

[issue27153] Default value shown by argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter is backwards for action='store_false'

New submission from Colin Morris: Small example: import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter) parser.add_argument('--no-foo', dest='foo', action='store_false', help="Suppress foo") args = parser.parse_args()