GH-103219: Fix optional args incorrectly being processed as required args #123931
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This PR addresses a pretty old bug where optional args were incorrectly marked as required and adds a corresponding test case. We now more thoroughly check to see that an arg is 1) required, 2) has no default value, and 3)
nargs
is not set to*
or?
before adding it to the list of required args.It looks like this bug at least dates back to 3.9, but since those releases are just for security fixes at this point, I've marked this for backport to 3.12 and 3.13.