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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 parse(self):
 """Generate a argparse parser and parse the command-line arguments"""

        if self.parser is None:
            self.makeParser()
        self.args = self.parser.parse_args()
        self.verbose = self.args.verbose