From: Georg Brandl Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 08:06:03 +0000 (+0000) Subject: #6638: fix wrong parameter name and markup a class. X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~599 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8514b85edc420aa1f91c443e7e11629855a170d3;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git #6638: fix wrong parameter name and markup a class. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/optparse.rst b/Doc/library/optparse.rst index 49371bea5d29..2fa4388c2104 100644 --- a/Doc/library/optparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/optparse.rst @@ -1171,19 +1171,20 @@ where the input parameters are the list of arguments to process (default: ``sys.argv[1:]``) ``values`` - object to store option arguments in (default: a new instance of optparse.Values) + object to store option arguments in (default: a new instance of + :class:`optparse.Values`) and the return values are ``options`` - the same object that was passed in as ``options``, or the optparse.Values + the same object that was passed in as ``values``, or the optparse.Values instance created by :mod:`optparse` ``args`` the leftover positional arguments after all options have been processed The most common usage is to supply neither keyword argument. If you supply -``options``, it will be modified with repeated ``setattr()`` calls (roughly one +``values``, it will be modified with repeated ``setattr()`` calls (roughly one for every option argument stored to an option destination) and returned by :meth:`parse_args`.