bpo-42870: Document change in argparse help output. (GH-24190)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
index 92fecb4bbcec469bc0e875f9f13e4c0bd99539fb..d2b3ed75f8c271f943f5c93b8c57817ba2d5707c 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
@@ -189,6 +189,12 @@ New Modules
 Improved Modules
 ================
 
+argparse
+--------
+
+Misleading phrase "optional arguments" was replaced with "options" in argparse help. Some tests might require adaptation if they rely on exact output match.
+(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`9694`.)
+
 base64
 ------
 

diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 211455b4dfc3c20833e593aec58e2c8b9c147d8e..136266965a869b1423101616103a3020b2e61ec4 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -761,6 +761,7 @@ Ken Howard
 Brad Howes
 Mike Hoy
 Ben Hoyt
+Tomáš Hrnčiar
 Miro Hrončok
 Chiu-Hsiang Hsu
 Chih-Hao Huang