[3.13] GH-139067: Add example for argparse's append action (GH-131389) (#139069)
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GH-139067: Add example for `argparse`'s `append` action (GH-131389)
(cherry picked from commit 101fd33065)

Co-authored-by: Moshe Kaplan <mosheekaplan@gmail.com>
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@ -687,16 +687,16 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The supplied actions are:
>>> parser.parse_args('--foo --bar'.split())
Namespace(foo=True, bar=False, baz=True)
* ``'append'`` - This stores a list, and appends each argument value to the
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::
* ``'append'`` - This appends each argument value to a list.
It is useful for allowing an option to be specified multiple times.
If the default value is a non-empty list, the parsed value will start
with the default list's elements and any values from the command line
will be appended after those default values. Example usage::
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>>> parser.add_argument('--foo', action='append')
>>> parser.add_argument('--foo', action='append', default=['0'])
>>> parser.parse_args('--foo 1 --foo 2'.split())
Namespace(foo=['1', '2'])
Namespace(foo=['0', '1', '2'])
* ``'append_const'`` - This stores a list, and appends the value specified by
the const_ keyword argument to the list; note that the const_ keyword