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lines changed Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -751,6 +751,9 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The supplied actions are:
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754+ Only actions that consume command-line arguments (e.g. ``'store' ``,
755+ ``'append' `` or ``'extend' ``) can be used with positional arguments.
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754757You may also specify an arbitrary action by passing an Action subclass or
755758other object that implements the same interface. The ``BooleanOptionalAction ``
756759is available in ``argparse `` and adds support for boolean actions such as
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878881If the ``nargs `` keyword argument is not provided, the number of arguments consumed
879882is determined by the action _. Generally this means a single command-line argument
880883will be consumed and a single item (not a list) will be produced.
884+ Actions that do not consume command-line arguments (e.g.
885+ ``'store_const' ``) set ``nargs=0 ``.
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