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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def get_application_parser(commands):
 """ Builds an argument parser for the application's CLI. :param commands: :return: ArgumentParser """


    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description=configuration.APPLICATION_DESCRIPTION,
        usage =configuration.EXECUTABLE_NAME + ' [sub-command] [options]',
        add_help=False)

    parser.add_argument(
        'sub_command',
        choices=[name for name in commands],
        nargs="?")

    parser.add_argument("-h", "--help", action="store_true")
    return parser