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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 configure_parser(self, parser):
 """ Adds the necessary supported arguments to the argument parser. Args: parser (argparse.ArgumentParser):
 The parser to add arguments to. """

        parser.add_argument("--log_path", default="", help="The log file path")
        parser.add_argument("--verbose", help="Increase logging verbosity", action="store_true")