From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:42:10 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [3.14] gh-72406: Document argument ordering in argparse help output (GH-148534) ... X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d26fef174a27c1ea9899723c4edb6b1751f8b26d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.14] gh-72406: Document argument ordering in argparse help output (GH-148534) (#148562) gh-72406: Document argument ordering in argparse help output (GH-148534) (cherry picked from commit 4286227308ee8dafc867062df4cad73af2a84696) Co-authored-by: Santi Hernandez Co-authored-by: Savannah Ostrowski --- diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index bc36a2933aa3..67d5cd87101b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -1996,6 +1996,9 @@ Argument groups Note that any arguments not in your user-defined groups will end up back in the usual "positional arguments" and "optional arguments" sections. + Within each argument group, arguments are displayed in help output in the + order in which they are added. + .. deprecated-removed:: 3.11 3.14 Calling :meth:`add_argument_group` on an argument group now raises an exception. This nesting was never supported, often failed to work