From: Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 03:14:17 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Issue #28455: Clarify example of overriding the convert_arg_line_to_args method
X-Git-Tag: v3.6.0b3~114^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5493e4723a922b9905cf6916363e72109a531cfd;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Issue #28455: Clarify example of overriding the convert_arg_line_to_args method

Patch by Mariatta Wijaya.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index fab072788f50..879bfed7e37f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -1958,10 +1958,11 @@ Customizing file parsing
    The method is called once per line read from the argument file, in order.
 
    A useful override of this method is one that treats each space-separated word
-   as an argument::
+   as an argument.  The following example demonstrates how to do this::
 
-    def convert_arg_line_to_args(self, arg_line):
-        return arg_line.split()
+    class MyArgumentParser(argparse.ArgumentParser):
+        def convert_arg_line_to_args(self, arg_line):
+            return arg_line.split()
 
 
 Exiting methods