@@ -791,9 +791,9 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The supplied actions are:
791791
792792* ``'append' `` - This appends each argument value to a list.
793793 It is useful for allowing an option to be specified multiple times.
794- If the default value is a non-empty list, the parsed value will start
795- with the default list's elements and any values from the command line
796- will be appended after those default values. Example usage::
794+ If the default value is a non-empty list, the parsed value for the option
795+ will start with the default list's elements and any values from the
796+ command line will be appended after those default values. Example usage::
797797
798798 >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
799799 >>> parser.add_argument('--foo', action='append', default=['0'])
@@ -818,12 +818,16 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The supplied actions are:
818818 value ``'+' `` or ``'*' ``.
819819 Note that when nargs _ is ``None `` (the default) or ``'?' ``, each
820820 character of the argument string will be appended to the list.
821+ If the default value is a non-empty list, the parsed value for the option
822+ will start with the default list's elements and any values from the
823+ command line will be appended after those default values.
821824 Example usage::
822825
823826 >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
824- >>> parser.add_argument("--foo", action="extend", nargs="+", type=str)
827+ >>> parser.add_argument("--foo", action="extend", nargs="+", type=str,
828+ ... default=["d1"])
825829 >>> parser.parse_args(["--foo", "f1", "--foo", "f2", "f3", "f4"])
826- Namespace(foo=['f1', 'f2', 'f3', 'f4'])
830+ Namespace(foo=['d1', ' f1', 'f2', 'f3', 'f4'])
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828832 .. versionadded :: 3.8
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