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diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index 5d269cc..b5a2b79 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -846,8 +846,10 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The supplied actions are: 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. - Example usage:: + list. It is useful to allow an option to be specified multiple times. + 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. Example usage:: >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> parser.add_argument('--foo', action='append') |