From 5cb527e89925edd486c55d9b605cceb48a2bce2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Satya Jandhyala <satya.k.jandhyala@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 13:40:23 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Changed command line argpasrse to process '--symmetric
 [True|False]'.

---
 .../python/tools/quantization/matmul_4bits_quantizer.py     | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/onnxruntime/python/tools/quantization/matmul_4bits_quantizer.py b/onnxruntime/python/tools/quantization/matmul_4bits_quantizer.py
index 3e9f9a6544a71..e3fefab26aaf8 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/python/tools/quantization/matmul_4bits_quantizer.py
+++ b/onnxruntime/python/tools/quantization/matmul_4bits_quantizer.py
@@ -348,6 +348,8 @@ def process(self):
 
             self.int4_quant_algo()
 
+def ort_convert_str_to_bool(value):
+    return value.lower() in ("true", "1")
 
 def parse_args():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
@@ -366,7 +368,9 @@ def parse_args():
         "--symmetric",
         required=False,
         default=True,
-        type=bool,
+        const=False,
+        nargs='?',
+        type=ort_convert_str_to_bool,
         help="Indicate whether to quantize the model symmetrically",
     )
     parser.add_argument(