6.21.2.4 Other actions

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6.21.2.4 Other actions

Some other actions supported by optparse are:

store a constant value
append this option's argument to a list
increment a counter by one
call a specified function

These are covered in section 6.21.3, Reference Guide and section 6.21.4, Option Callbacks.

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