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[3.13] gh-85935: Explicitly document the case nargs=0 in argparse (GH-125302) (GH-125357)
(cherry picked from commit 07c2d15) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
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Doc/library/argparse.rst

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.. versionadded:: 3.8
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Only actions that consume command-line arguments (e.g. ``'store'``,
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``'append'`` or ``'extend'``) can be used with positional arguments.
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You may also specify an arbitrary action by passing an Action subclass or
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other object that implements the same interface. The ``BooleanOptionalAction``
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is available in ``argparse`` and adds support for boolean actions such as
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If the ``nargs`` keyword argument is not provided, the number of arguments consumed
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is determined by the action_. Generally this means a single command-line argument
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will be consumed and a single item (not a list) will be produced.
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Actions that do not consume command-line arguments (e.g.
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``'store_const'``) set ``nargs=0``.
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.. _const:

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