From c8bb541934f17735a11868d5726f84159c13093a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rupayon Haldar <80724680+rupayon123@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:16:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Honor caller defaults for missing raw options

---
 src/cleo/io/inputs/argv_input.py   |  2 +-
 tests/io/inputs/test_argv_input.py | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/cleo/io/inputs/argv_input.py b/src/cleo/io/inputs/argv_input.py
index 54cc1735..e08f363c 100644
--- a/src/cleo/io/inputs/argv_input.py
+++ b/src/cleo/io/inputs/argv_input.py
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ def parameter_option(
                 if token == value or (leading != "" and token.startswith(leading)):
                     return token[len(leading)]
 
-        return False
+        return default
 
     def _set_tokens(self, tokens: list[str]) -> None:
         self._tokens = tokens
diff --git a/tests/io/inputs/test_argv_input.py b/tests/io/inputs/test_argv_input.py
index f83ae50f..d4d41bbc 100644
--- a/tests/io/inputs/test_argv_input.py
+++ b/tests/io/inputs/test_argv_input.py
@@ -151,3 +151,50 @@ def test_parse_options(
     i.bind(Definition(options))
 
     assert i.options == expected_options
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("args", [[], ["--other=value"]])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("values", ["--name", ["--name", "-n"]])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("default", [False, 0, None, "fallback", object()])
+def test_parameter_option_returns_default_when_missing(
+    args: list[str], values: str | list[str], default: object
+) -> None:
+    i = ArgvInput(["cli.py", *args])
+
+    assert i.parameter_option(values, default=default) is default
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ["args", "expected"],
+    [
+        (["--name", "alice"], "alice"),
+        (["-n", "alice"], "alice"),
+        (["--name"], None),
+    ],
+)
+def test_parameter_option_preserves_present_values(
+    args: list[str], expected: str | None
+) -> None:
+    i = ArgvInput(["cli.py", *args])
+
+    assert i.parameter_option(["--name", "-n"], default="fallback") == expected
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("only_params", [False, True])
+def test_parameter_option_default_after_end_of_options(only_params: bool) -> None:
+    i = ArgvInput(["cli.py", "--", "--name", "alice"])
+    default = object()
+
+    result = i.parameter_option("--name", default=default, only_params=only_params)
+
+    if only_params:
+        assert result is default
+    else:
+        assert result == "alice"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("args", [[], ["--other=value"]])
+def test_parameter_option_default_is_false(args: list[str]) -> None:
+    i = ArgvInput(["cli.py", *args])
+
+    assert i.parameter_option("--name") is False

From 6c141fd7850386b617a543eb48ef62896674d546 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rupayon Haldar <80724680+rupayon123@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:18:14 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add the PR-numbered raw-option bugfix news entry

---
 news/549.bugfix.md | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 news/549.bugfix.md

diff --git a/news/549.bugfix.md b/news/549.bugfix.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2f47db54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/549.bugfix.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fixed raw option lookups ignoring the supplied default when no option matched.