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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-09-08 20:45:35 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-09-08 20:45:35 (GMT) |
| commit | 14d66a98ed8674fd2e6ba2f04ddef694111011a2 (patch) | |
| tree | f61111581777966e8a0467498fa65bbf6ad049df | |
| parent | 8bdcdc235ed7f234e0e93d8518e02584b46e81e7 (diff) | |
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#5088: document behavior of optparse defaults with 'append' action.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/optparse.rst b/Doc/library/optparse.rst index add582e..6dc57bb 100644 --- a/Doc/library/optparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/optparse.rst @@ -1165,6 +1165,17 @@ must specify for any option using that action. options.tracks.append(int("4")) + The ``append`` action calls the ``append`` method on the current value of the + option. This means that any default value specified must have an ``append`` + method. It also means that if the default value is non-empty, the default + elements will be present in the parsed value for the option, with any values + from the command line appended after those default values:: + + >>> parser.add_option("--files", action="append", default=['~/.mypkg/defaults']) + >>> opts, args = parser.parse_args(['--files', 'overrides.mypkg']) + >>> opts.files + ['~/.mypkg/defaults', 'overrides.mypkg'] + * ``"append_const"`` [required: :attr:`~Option.const`; relevant: :attr:`~Option.dest`] |