@@ -687,16 +687,16 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The supplied actions are:
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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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