- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
when action='append', type='str' and default=[].
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 817a352..f3d6fc3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@
especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would always
be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line.
+- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
+ when action='append', type='str' and default=[].
+
- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is
compiled using the clang compiler