From 95f6e1275b1c9de550d978cb2b4351cc4ed24fe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Savannah Ostrowski Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 14:46:30 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] GH-108009: Add clarification of parser and argument defaults in argparse docs (#124154) Co-authored-by: C.A.M. Gerlach --- Doc/library/argparse.rst | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index 9655db4f301a..5a8f0bde2e38 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -2070,7 +2070,9 @@ Parser defaults >>> parser.parse_args(['736']) Namespace(bar=42, baz='badger', foo=736) - Note that parser-level defaults always override argument-level defaults:: + Note that defaults can be set at both the parser level using :meth:`set_defaults` + and at the argument level using :meth:`add_argument`. If both are called for the + same argument, the last default set for an argument is used:: >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> parser.add_argument('--foo', default='bar') -- 2.47.3