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168b6c317cadd dummy file param to fix jupyter (Josiah Baker) Pull request description: this fixes argparse to use `parse_known_args`. previously, if an unknown argument was passed, argparse would fail with an `unrecognized arguments: %s` error. ## why the documentation mentions being able to run `TestShell` in a REPL interpreter or a jupyter notebook. when i tried to run inside a jupyter notebook, i got the following error:  this was due to the notebook passing the filename of the notebook as an argument. this is a known problem with notebooks and argparse, documented here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48796169/how-to-fix-ipykernel-launcher-py-error-unrecognized-arguments-in-jupyter ## testing to test, make sure you have jupyter notebooks installed. you can do this by running: ``` pip install notebook ``` or following instructions from [here](https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started/installation.html). once installed, start a notebook (`jupyter notebook`), launch a python3 kernel and run the following snippet: ```python import sys # make sure this is the path for your system sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/bitcoin/test/functional") from test_framework.test_shell import TestShell test = TestShell().setup(num_nodes=2, setup_clean_chain=True) ``` you should see the following output, without errors:  if you are unfamiliar with notebooks, here is a short guide on using them: https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/running.html ACKs for top commit: MarcoFalke: review ACK168b6c317cjamesob: crACK168b6c317cpracticalswift: cr ACK168b6c317cTree-SHA512: 4fee1563bf64a1cf9009934182412446cde03badf2f19553b78ad2cb3ceb0e5e085a5db41ed440473494ac047f04641311ecbba3948761c6553d0ca4b54937b4
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