From 9e87c0e03fa501fb90008547983ce4c1dcaaf90c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Fontein Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 23:48:48 +0100 Subject: 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. --- Lib/argparse.py | 2 +- Lib/test/test_argparse.py | 7 +++++-- Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-12-15-06-29-00.bpo-46080.AuQpLt.rst | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-12-15-06-29-00.bpo-46080.AuQpLt.rst 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 diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-12-15-06-29-00.bpo-46080.AuQpLt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-12-15-06-29-00.bpo-46080.AuQpLt.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e42d84e --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-12-15-06-29-00.bpo-46080.AuQpLt.rst @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Fix exception in argparse help text generation if a +:class:`argparse.BooleanOptionalAction` argument's default is +``argparse.SUPPRESS`` and it has ``help`` specified. Patch by Felix Fontein. \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v0.12