From: Martin Panter Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 03:49:48 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Issue #25314: Remove confused statement about const argument X-Git-Tag: v2.7.12rc1~121 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=87d9de63544db51e5f0d7cded0259c989421f346;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Issue #25314: Remove confused statement about const argument --- diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index 181291fec019..c7b8cb78ac1e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -675,8 +675,7 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The supplied actions are: Namespace(foo='1') * ``'store_const'`` - This stores the value specified by the const_ keyword - argument. (Note that the const_ keyword argument defaults to the rather - unhelpful ``None``.) The ``'store_const'`` action is most commonly used with + argument. The ``'store_const'`` action is most commonly used with optional arguments that specify some sort of flag. For example:: >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() @@ -878,7 +877,8 @@ the various :class:`ArgumentParser` actions. The two most common uses of it are command-line argument following it, the value of ``const`` will be assumed instead. See the nargs_ description for examples. -The ``const`` keyword argument defaults to ``None``. +With the ``'store_const'`` and ``'append_const'`` actions, the ``const`` +keyword argument must be given. For other actions, is defaults to ``None``. default