From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 21:40:20 +0000 (+0100) Subject: [3.11] Add note to `sys.orig_argv` clarifying the difference from `sys.argv` (GH... X-Git-Tag: v3.11.8~47 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e66ad91f68b68fc8cbdc4b6dacea80636164cdf5;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.11] Add note to `sys.orig_argv` clarifying the difference from `sys.argv` (GH-114630) (#114822) Add note to `sys.orig_argv` clarifying the difference from `sys.argv` (GH-114630) (cherry picked from commit 1836f674c0d86ec3375189a550c8f4a52ff89ae8) Co-authored-by: Bradley Reynolds Co-authored-by: Ned Batchelder --- diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 2a1e6fb1a9cf..e402d8b418b7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -1240,7 +1240,10 @@ 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