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diff --git a/‎python/extractor/cli-integration-test/extract-stdlib/test.sh‎
Lines changed: 2 additions & 2 deletions b/‎python/extractor/cli-integration-test/extract-stdlib/test.sh‎
Lines changed: 2 additions & 2 deletions
diff --git a/‎python/extractor/semmle/cmdline.py‎
Lines changed: 12 additions & 2 deletions b/‎python/extractor/semmle/cmdline.py‎
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@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ rm -rf dbs
 
 mkdir dbs
 
-CODEQL_EXTRACTOR_PYTHON_DONT_EXTRACT_STDLIB=True $CODEQL database create dbs/without-stdlib --language python --source-root repo_dir/
+$CODEQL database create dbs/without-stdlib --language python --source-root repo_dir/
 $CODEQL query run --database dbs/without-stdlib query.ql > query.without-stdlib.actual
 diff query.without-stdlib.expected query.without-stdlib.actual
 
-LGTM_INDEX_EXCLUDE="/usr/lib/**" $CODEQL database create dbs/with-stdlib --language python --source-root repo_dir/
+LGTM_INDEX_EXCLUDE="/usr/lib/**" CODEQL_EXTRACTOR_PYTHON_EXTRACT_STDLIB=True $CODEQL database create dbs/with-stdlib --language python --source-root repo_dir/
 $CODEQL query run --database dbs/with-stdlib query.ql > query.with-stdlib.actual
 diff query.with-stdlib.expected query.with-stdlib.actual
@@ -102,8 +102,10 @@ def make_parser():
     config_options.add_option("--colorize", dest="colorize", default=False, action="store_true",
                       help = """Colorize the logging output.""")
 
-    config_options.add_option("--dont-extract-stdlib", dest="extract_stdlib", default=True, action="store_false",
-        help="Do not extract the standard library.")
+    config_options.add_option("--dont-extract-stdlib", dest="extract_stdlib", action="store_false",
+        help="This flag is deprecated; not extracting the standard library is now the default.")
+    config_options.add_option("--extract-stdlib", dest="extract_stdlib", default=False, action="store_true",
+        help="Extract the standard library.")
 
     parser.add_option_group(config_options)
 
@@ -226,8 +228,16 @@ def parse(command_line):
 
     if 'CODEQL_EXTRACTOR_PYTHON_DONT_EXTRACT_STDLIB' in os.environ:
         options.extract_stdlib = False
+        print ("Warning: CODEQL_EXTRACTOR_PYTHON_DONT_EXTRACT_STDLIB is deprecated; the default is now to not extract the standard library.")
+
+    if 'CODEQL_EXTRACTOR_PYTHON_EXTRACT_STDLIB' in os.environ:
+        options.extract_stdlib = True
 
     options.prune = True
+
+    if options.extract_stdlib:
+        print ("Warning: The analysis will extract the standard library. This behavior is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. We expect it to be gone in CLI version 2.20.0.")
+
     return options, args
 
 def split_and_flatten(options_list, div):