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python argparse - optional append argument with choices

I have a script where I ask the user for a list of pre-defined actions to perform. I also want the ability to assume a particular list of actions when the user doesn't define anything. however, it seems like trying to do both of these together is impossible.

when the user gives no arguments, they receive an error that the default choice is invalid

acts = ['clear','copy','dump','lock']
p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
p.add_argument('action', nargs='*', action='append', choices=acts, default=[['dump', 'clear']])
args = p.parse_args([])
>>> usage: [-h] [{clear,copy,dump,lock} [{clear,copy,dump,lock} ...]]
: error: argument action: invalid choice: [['dump', 'clear']] (choose from 'clear', 'copy', 'dump', 'lock')

and when they do define a set of actions, the resultant namespace has the user's actions appended to the default, rather than replacing the default

acts = ['clear','copy','dump','lock']
p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
p.add_argument('action', nargs='*', action='append', choices=acts, default=[['dump', 'clear']])
args = p.parse_args(['lock'])
args
>>> Namespace(action=[['dump', 'clear'], ['dump']])
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What you need can be done using a customized argparse.Action as in the following example:

import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()

class DefaultListAction(argparse.Action):
    CHOICES = ['clear','copy','dump','lock']
    def __call__(self, parser, namespace, values, option_string=None):
        if values:
            for value in values:
                if value not in self.CHOICES:
                    message = ("invalid choice: {0!r} (choose from {1})"
                               .format(value,
                                       ', '.join([repr(action)
                                                  for action in self.CHOICES])))

                    raise argparse.ArgumentError(self, message)
            setattr(namespace, self.dest, values)

parser.add_argument('actions', nargs='*', action=DefaultListAction,
                    default = ['dump', 'clear'],
                    metavar='ACTION')

print parser.parse_args([])
print parser.parse_args(['lock'])

The output of the script is:

$ python test.py 
Namespace(actions=['dump', 'clear'])
Namespace(actions=['lock'])

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