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!argparse --- Parser for command-line options, arguments and subcommands — Exiting methods

This method terminates the program, exiting with the specified status and, if given, it prints a message to sys.stderr before that.

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). This method terminates the program, exiting with the specified status and, if given, it prints a message to sys.stderr before that. The user can override this method to handle these steps differently This method prints a usage message, including the message, to sys.stderr and terminates the program with a status code of 2. Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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