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-rw-r--r--Lib/argparse.py1
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_argparse.py8
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/argparse.py b/Lib/argparse.py
index 2677ef63e9..2fb1da59f9 100644
--- a/Lib/argparse.py
+++ b/Lib/argparse.py
@@ -857,7 +857,6 @@ class BooleanOptionalAction(Action):
def __init__(self,
option_strings,
dest,
- const=None,
default=None,
type=None,
choices=None,
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_argparse.py b/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
index e82a0c39c2..22cae626cc 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
@@ -700,6 +700,14 @@ class TestBooleanOptionalAction(ParserTestCase):
('--no-foo --foo', NS(foo=True)),
]
+ def test_const(self):
+ # See bpo-40862
+ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+ with self.assertRaises(TypeError) as cm:
+ parser.add_argument('--foo', const=True, action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction)
+
+ self.assertIn("got an unexpected keyword argument 'const'", str(cm.exception))
+
class TestBooleanOptionalActionRequired(ParserTestCase):
"""Tests BooleanOptionalAction required"""