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Issue #25314: Merge argparse doc from 3.5

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Martin Panter 2016-03-28 06:13:52 +00:00
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@ -729,15 +729,17 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The supplied actions are:
>>> parser.parse_args('--foo'.split()) >>> parser.parse_args('--foo'.split())
Namespace(foo=42) Namespace(foo=42)
* ``'store_true'`` and ``'store_false'`` - These store the values ``True`` and * ``'store_true'`` and ``'store_false'`` - These are special cases of
``False`` respectively. These are special cases of ``'store_const'``. For ``'store_const'`` used for storing the values ``True`` and ``False``
example:: respectively. In addition, they create default values of ``False`` and
``True`` respectively. For example::
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>>> parser.add_argument('--foo', action='store_true') >>> parser.add_argument('--foo', action='store_true')
>>> parser.add_argument('--bar', action='store_false') >>> parser.add_argument('--bar', action='store_false')
>>> parser.add_argument('--baz', action='store_false')
>>> parser.parse_args('--foo --bar'.split()) >>> parser.parse_args('--foo --bar'.split())
Namespace(bar=False, foo=True) Namespace(foo=True, bar=False, baz=True)
* ``'append'`` - This stores a list, and appends each argument value to the * ``'append'`` - This stores a list, and appends each argument value to the
list. This is useful to allow an option to be specified multiple times. list. This is useful to allow an option to be specified multiple times.