!argparse --- Parser for command-line options, arguments and subcommands — Parser defaults
Most of the time, the attributes of the object returned by parse_args will be fully determined by inspecting the command-line arguments and the argument actions.
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Most of the time, the attributes of the object returned by parse_args will be fully determined by inspecting the command-line arguments and the argument actions. set_defaults allows some additional attributes that are determined without any inspection of the command line to be added
Note that defaults can be set at both the parser level using set_defaults and at the argument level using add_argument. If both are called for the same argument, the last default set for an argument is used
Parser-level defaults can be particularly useful when working with multiple parsers. See the ~ArgumentParser.add_subparsers method for an example of this type.
Get the default value for a namespace attribute, as set by either ~ArgumentParser.add_argument or by ~ArgumentParser.set_defaults
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