Issue #25314: store_true and store_false also create appropriate defaults.

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Raymond Hettinger 2011-11-20 11:05:23 -08:00
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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())
Namespace(foo=42)
* ``'store_true'`` and ``'store_false'`` - These store the values ``True`` and
``False`` respectively. These are special cases of ``'store_const'``. For
example::
* ``'store_true'`` and ``'store_false'`` - These are special cases of
``'store_const'`` used for storing the values ``True`` and ``False``
respectively. In addition, they create default values of ``False`` and
``True`` respectively. For example::
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>>> parser.add_argument('--foo', action='store_true')
>>> parser.add_argument('--bar', action='store_false')
>>> parser.add_argument('--baz', action='store_false')
>>> 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
list. This is useful to allow an option to be specified multiple times.