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python - argparse - disable same argument occurrences

I'm trying to disable same argument occurences within one command line, using argparse

./python3 --argument1=something --argument2 --argument1=something_else

which means this should raise an error, because value of argument1 is overriden, by default, argparse just overrides the value and continues like nothing happened... Is there any smart way how to disable this behaviour?

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I don't think there is a native way to do it using argparse, but fortunately, argparse offers methods to report custom errors. The most elegant way is probably to define a custom action that checks for duplicates (and exits if there are).

class UniqueStore(argparse.Action):
    def __call__(self, parser, namespace, values, option_string):
        if getattr(namespace, self.dest, self.default) is not self.default:
            parser.error(option_string + " appears several times.")
        setattr(namespace, self.dest, values)

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('-f', '--foo', action=UniqueStore)

args = parser.parse_args()

(Read the docs about cutom actions)

Another way is to use the append action and count the len of the list.

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('-f', '--foo', action='append')
args = parser.parse_args()

if len(args.foo) > 1:
    parser.error("--foo appears several times.")

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