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+"""Converters for use as the type argument for arparse's add_argument method."""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+
+
+def key_value_type(value: str) -> tuple[str, str]:
+    """Wrapper around key_value."""
+    return key_value(value)
+
+
+def key_value(value: str) -> tuple[str, str]:
+    """Type parsing and validation for argparse key/value pairs separated by an '=' character."""
+    parts = value.split('=')
+
+    if len(parts) != 2:
+        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError('"%s" must be in the format "key=value"' % value)
+
+    return parts[0], parts[1]