Adding custom command line args not working

[Thundercleez]

I have my conftest.py as

import pytest

def pytest_addoption(parser):
  parser.addoption("--zdebug", type=bool, default=True, action="store")

@pytest.fixture
def zdebug(request):
  return request.config.getoption('--zdebug')

Then I have another file foo.py

def test_foo(zdebug)
  print("zdebug: " + str(zdebug))

Then at the command line I run

pytest -s --zdebug=False foo.py

Even if I set the default in the addoption to False, the print out always prints True. Why is this not working?

Of course, I've tried

pytest -s --zdebug False foo.py

as well

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

As per the docs on the type arg bool ist discouraged as type since bool Just Checks for truthyness

If you want a flag i recommend the Store true Action