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GH-139067: Add example for argparse's append action (#131389)
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Doc/library/argparse.rst

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>>> parser.parse_args('--foo --bar'.split())
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Namespace(foo=True, bar=False, baz=True)
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* ``'append'`` - This stores a list, and appends each argument value to the
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list. It is useful to allow an option to be specified multiple times.
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If the default value is non-empty, the default elements will be present
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in the parsed value for the option, with any values from the
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command line appended after those default values. Example usage::
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* ``'append'`` - This appends each argument value to a list.
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It is useful for allowing an option to be specified multiple times.
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If the default value is a non-empty list, the parsed value will start
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with the default list's elements and any values from the command line
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will be appended after those default values. Example usage::
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>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
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>>> parser.add_argument('--foo', action='append')
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>>> parser.add_argument('--foo', action='append', default=['0'])
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>>> parser.parse_args('--foo 1 --foo 2'.split())
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Namespace(foo=['1', '2'])
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Namespace(foo=['0', '1', '2'])
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* ``'append_const'`` - This stores a list, and appends the value specified by
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the const_ keyword argument to the list; note that the const_ keyword

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