[issue28558] argparse Incorrect Handling of Store Actions

Xiang Zhang added the comment: This is the expected behaviour. The doc explicitly says "Note that nargs=1 produces a list of one item. This is different from the default, in which the item is produced by itself". Read https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#nargs. -- nosy:

[issue28558] argparse Incorrect Handling of Store Actions

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[issue28558] argparse Incorrect Handling of Store Actions

New submission from Chris: argparse does not handle Store actions correctly when "nargs = 1" is provided. The documentation indicates the value should be assigned to the dest, but instead a list with the value as the only item is assigned to dest. -- files: test_argparse.py messages: