Add note to `sys.orig_argv` clarifying the difference from `sys.argv` (#114630)

Co-authored-by: Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst
index abf2c393a44928da03f9841c5dbb1a6d6a35dc8f..a97a369b77b88a897daeadbf17501a9ead991bb4 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/sys.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst
@@ -1293,7 +1293,10 @@ always available.
    The list of the original command line arguments passed to the Python
    executable.
 
-   See also :data:`sys.argv`.
+   The elements of :data:`sys.orig_argv` are the arguments to the Python interpreter,
+   while the elements of :data:`sys.argv` are the arguments to the user's program.
+   Arguments consumed by the interpreter itself will be present in :data:`sys.orig_argv`
+   and missing from :data:`sys.argv`.
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.10