def _create_opt_rule(self, rulename):
        """ Given a rule name, creates an optional ply.yacc rule
            for it. The name of the optional rule is
            <rulename>_opt
        """
        optname = rulename + '_opt'

        def optrule(self, p):
            p[0] = p[1]

        optrule.__doc__ = '%s : empty\n| %s' % (optname, rulename)
        optrule.__name__ = 'p_%s' % optname
        setattr(self.__class__, optrule.__name__, optrule)
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