From 2766c3c1e5025a3a32a759e6827c4fbe3466e854 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Moshe Kaplan Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:24:20 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] GH-139067: Add example for `argparse`'s `append` action (GH-131389) (cherry picked from commit 101fd33065638c94f413447a7bcff09d54831a4a) Co-authored-by: Moshe Kaplan --- Doc/library/argparse.rst | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index 11b3b2a7e9b2f1..3b9dde39814adf 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -687,16 +687,16 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The supplied actions are: >>> parser.parse_args('--foo --bar'.split()) Namespace(foo=True, bar=False, baz=True) -* ``'append'`` - This stores a list, and appends each argument value to the - list. It is useful to allow an option to be specified multiple times. - If the default value is non-empty, the default elements will be present - in the parsed value for the option, with any values from the - command line appended after those default values. Example usage:: +* ``'append'`` - This appends each argument value to a list. + It is useful for allowing an option to be specified multiple times. + If the default value is a non-empty list, the parsed value will start + with the default list's elements and any values from the command line + will be appended after those default values. Example usage:: >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() - >>> parser.add_argument('--foo', action='append') + >>> parser.add_argument('--foo', action='append', default=['0']) >>> parser.parse_args('--foo 1 --foo 2'.split()) - Namespace(foo=['1', '2']) + Namespace(foo=['0', '1', '2']) * ``'append_const'`` - This stores a list, and appends the value specified by the const_ keyword argument to the list; note that the const_ keyword