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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_args(argv: typing.Optional[typing.Sequence] = None) -> typing.Dict[str, str]: """Exposes the docopt command-line arguments parser. Return a dictionary of arguments. """

    return docopt(__doc__, argv=argv, version=__version__)