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author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2011-11-20 19:05:23 (GMT) |
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committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2011-11-20 19:05:23 (GMT) |
commit | 421467f8f0c9fe6198f882e1925c47566ca3023b (patch) | |
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Note the store_true and store_false also create the appropriate defaults.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index 3b83110..38e3f3e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -670,15 +670,17 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The supported 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'`` using 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(bar=False, baz=True, foo=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. |