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authorFelix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>2022-01-20 22:48:48 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-01-20 22:48:48 (GMT)
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bpo-46080: fix argparse help generation exception in edge case (GH-30111)
Fix an uncaught exception during help text generation when argparse.BooleanOptionalAction is used with default=argparse.SUPPRESS and help is specified.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib')
-rw-r--r--Lib/argparse.py2
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_argparse.py7
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/argparse.py b/Lib/argparse.py
index 1529d9e..9344dab 100644
--- a/Lib/argparse.py
+++ b/Lib/argparse.py
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ class BooleanOptionalAction(Action):
option_string = '--no-' + option_string[2:]
_option_strings.append(option_string)
- if help is not None and default is not None:
+ if help is not None and default is not None and default is not SUPPRESS:
help += " (default: %(default)s)"
super().__init__(
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_argparse.py b/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
index afcb88f..df6da92 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
@@ -3626,6 +3626,8 @@ class TestHelpUsage(HelpTestCase):
Sig('--bar', help='Whether to bar', default=True,
action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction),
Sig('-f', '--foobar', '--barfoo', action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction),
+ Sig('--bazz', action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction,
+ default=argparse.SUPPRESS, help='Bazz!'),
]
argument_group_signatures = [
(Sig('group'), [
@@ -3638,8 +3640,8 @@ class TestHelpUsage(HelpTestCase):
usage = '''\
usage: PROG [-h] [-w W [W ...]] [-x [X ...]] [--foo | --no-foo]
[--bar | --no-bar]
- [-f | --foobar | --no-foobar | --barfoo | --no-barfoo] [-y [Y]]
- [-z Z Z Z]
+ [-f | --foobar | --no-foobar | --barfoo | --no-barfoo]
+ [--bazz | --no-bazz] [-y [Y]] [-z Z Z Z]
a b b [c] [d ...] e [e ...]
'''
help = usage + '''\
@@ -3656,6 +3658,7 @@ class TestHelpUsage(HelpTestCase):
--foo, --no-foo Whether to foo
--bar, --no-bar Whether to bar (default: True)
-f, --foobar, --no-foobar, --barfoo, --no-barfoo
+ --bazz, --no-bazz Bazz!
group:
-y [Y] y