This means that any parameter is converted to string, and then evaluates as true unless empty. One simple way of correctly defining a boolean argument with default true value would be:
parser.add_argument("--html-safe", default=True, action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction,
help="use to produce HTML safe output within <doc>...</doc>")
This way the parser would accept both --html-safe and --no-html-safe and also generate appropriate help.
Due to a bug, the only way to turn off the --html-safe command line option is passing an empty argument (that evaluates as false in Python) like this:
wikiextractor --html-safe ""The following does not work :
wikiextractor --no-html-safewikiextractor --html-safe falseThe argument is currently defined like this:
https://github.com/attardi/wikiextractor/blob/f0ca16c3e92983b9094b6f32526992fc3a678f8f/wikiextractor/WikiExtractor.py#L560-L561
This means that any parameter is converted to string, and then evaluates as true unless empty. One simple way of correctly defining a boolean argument with default true value would be:
This way the parser would accept both
--html-safeand--no-html-safeand also generate appropriate help.