paul j3 added the comment:
An integer nargs value is only used in one of 2 ways,
range(nargs)
'%s'*nargs
In both a negative value acts the same as a 0.
I don't think the original authors though much about 'what if the code user
gives a negative value?', because nargs is counting things - the number of
expected arguments. For some actions that number is 0. For other some sort of
positive integer, or variable numbers like '*','+' make most sense.
To some degree nargs is modeled on the regex sequences, '*','+','?','{n}'.
'{-1}' does not produce a regex error, though I can't make anything match it.
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