bpo-41047: fix argparse misbehavior with choices and nargs='*'#20997
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bpo-41047: fix argparse misbehavior with choices and nargs='*'#20997jameshcorbett wants to merge 1 commit intopython:masterfrom
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argparse.ArgumentParsersometimes rejects positional arguments with no arguments whenchoicesis set andnargs="*". This PR would fix that, so they would never be rejected. This would make the behavior of positional arguments align with the behavior of optional arguments in this specific case.https://bugs.python.org/issue41047