[issue43160] argparse: add extend_const action

Tony Lykke added the comment: Sorry, there's a typo in my last comment. --store --foo a Namespace(foo=['a', 'b', 'c']) from the first set of examples should have been --store --foo c Namespace(foo=['a', 'b', 'c']) --

[issue43160] argparse: add extend_const action

Tony Lykke added the comment: Perhaps the example I added to the docs isn't clear enough and should be changed because you're right, that specific one can be served by store_const. Turns out coming up with examples that are minimal but not too contrived is hard! Let me try again with a

[issue43160] argparse: add extend_const action

paul j3 added the comment: It's not clear what your patch does that the existing 'store_const' doesn't. Even 'append_const' does the same except for a extra level of list/tuple nesting. But I'll admit that I didn't much need for 'extend' addition, but others, including the original

[issue43160] argparse: add extend_const action

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[issue43160] argparse: add extend_const action

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[issue43160] argparse: add extend_const action

New submission from Tony Lykke : I submitted this to the python-ideas mailing list early last year: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-id...@python.org/thread/7ZHY7HFFQHIX3YWWCIJTNB4DRG2NQDOV/. Recently I had some time to implement it (it actually turned out to be pretty trivial),