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2024-10-30T01:28:56Z

Document how to provide a negative number as an argument · fastapi typer · Discussion #798

First Check I added a very descriptive title here. I used the GitHub search to find a similar question and didn't find it. I searched the Typer documentation, with the integrated search. I already ...

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Today I learned that you cannot pass negative integers as values to typer. in this case context_settings={"ignore_unknown_options": True} is required so that the - does not look like a flag.

# script name: main.py

import typer

app = typer.Typer()


@app.command()
def failing(value: float):
    print(f"{value=}")
    

@app.command(
    context_settings={"ignore_unknown_options": True}
)
def working_good(value: float):
    print(f"{value=}")
    
    
if __name__ == "__main__":
    app()

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💭 Document how to provide a negative number as an argument · fas...