GH-141963: Clarify argparse documentation (GH-141964)

Clarify argparse documentation

Tightens the phrasing for several argparse actions.

diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index 2a39f248651936417d900ace705cdb7862468d13..71c4f09488654615010fcec1cd1d21884dbcd982 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -767,9 +767,9 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The supplied actions are:
     Namespace(foo=42)
 
 * ``'store_true'`` and ``'store_false'`` - These are special cases of
-  ``'store_const'`` used for storing the values ``True`` and ``False``
-  respectively.  In addition, they create default values of ``False`` and
-  ``True`` respectively::
+  ``'store_const'`` that respectively store the values ``True`` and ``False``
+  with default values of ``False`` and
+  ``True``::
 
     >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
     >>> parser.add_argument('--foo', action='store_true')
@@ -789,8 +789,8 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The supplied actions are:
     >>> parser.parse_args('--foo 1 --foo 2'.split())
     Namespace(foo=['0', '1', '2'])
 
-* ``'append_const'`` - This stores a list, and appends the value specified by
-  the const_ keyword argument to the list; note that the const_ keyword
+* ``'append_const'`` - This appends the value specified by
+  the const_ keyword argument to a list; note that the const_ keyword
   argument defaults to ``None``. The ``'append_const'`` action is typically
   useful when multiple arguments need to store constants to the same list. For
   example::
@@ -801,8 +801,8 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The supplied actions are:
     >>> parser.parse_args('--str --int'.split())
     Namespace(types=[<class 'str'>, <class 'int'>])
 
-* ``'extend'`` - This stores a list and appends each item from the multi-value
-  argument list to it.
+* ``'extend'`` - This appends each item from a multi-value
+  argument to a list.
   The ``'extend'`` action is typically used with the nargs_ keyword argument
   value ``'+'`` or ``'*'``.
   Note that when nargs_ is ``None`` (the default) or ``'?'``, each
@@ -816,7 +816,7 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The supplied actions are:
 
   .. versionadded:: 3.8
 
-* ``'count'`` - This counts the number of times a keyword argument occurs. For
+* ``'count'`` - This counts the number of times an argument occurs. For
   example, this is useful for increasing verbosity levels::
 
     >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()