subprocess - Python argparse storing arguments as lists rather than ints. Confusing or correct?

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Answer 1

Remove the nargs=1 part.
From: https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#nargs

Note that nargs=1 produces a list of one item. This is different from the default, in which the item is produced by itself.