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Comment 1 for bug 1048710

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Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote : Re: Regression in argparse for both python2.7 and python3.2

Barry actually noticed that it's not an empty string as I had assumed, it's the string "[]".

So it looks like the new version of python now sets the default value to type(default) which in this case would be str([]) explaining that value. It's still different from what we'd get with earlier versions.