Don’t quote characters twice.
``code`` markup is enough to mark command-line fragments or to talk about a character. ``'c'`` is still used for actual Python string objects. I did a similar change in optparse.rst in r86521. I’ve also ported two minor changes from the 3.3 version of the file (removing an unnecessary module name in a class directive, adding a comma).
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@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ This can be achieved by passing ``False`` as the ``add_help=`` argument to
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--foo FOO foo help
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The help option is typically ``-h/--help``. The exception to this is
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if the ``prefix_chars=`` is specified and does not include ``'-'``, in
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if the ``prefix_chars=`` is specified and does not include ``-``, in
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which case ``-h`` and ``--help`` are not valid options. In
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this case, the first character in ``prefix_chars`` is used to prefix
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the help options::
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prefix_chars
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^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Most command-line options will use ``'-'`` as the prefix, e.g. ``-f/--foo``.
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Most command-line options will use ``-`` as the prefix, e.g. ``-f/--foo``.
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Parsers that need to support different or additional prefix
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characters, e.g. for options
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like ``+f`` or ``/foo``, may specify them using the ``prefix_chars=`` argument
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Namespace(bar='Y', f='X')
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The ``prefix_chars=`` argument defaults to ``'-'``. Supplying a set of
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characters that does not include ``'-'`` will cause ``-f/--foo`` options to be
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characters that does not include ``-`` will cause ``-f/--foo`` options to be
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disallowed.
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@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ epilog_ texts in command-line help messages::
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likewise for this epilog whose whitespace will be cleaned up and whose words
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will be wrapped across a couple lines
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Passing :class:`~argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter` as ``formatter_class=``
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Passing :class:`RawDescriptionHelpFormatter` as ``formatter_class=``
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indicates that description_ and epilog_ are already correctly formatted and
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should not be line-wrapped::
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optional arguments:
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-h, --help show this help message and exit
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:class:`RawTextHelpFormatter` maintains whitespace for all sorts of help text
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:class:`RawTextHelpFormatter` maintains whitespace for all sorts of help text,
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including argument descriptions.
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The other formatter class available, :class:`ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter`,
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different number of command-line arguments with a single action. The supported
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values are:
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* N (an integer). N arguments from the command line will be gathered together into a
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* ``N`` (an integer). ``N`` arguments from the command line will be gathered together into a
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list. For example::
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>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
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>>> parser.parse_args(''.split())
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Namespace(foo=42)
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For positional arguments with nargs_ ``='?'`` or ``'*'``, the ``default`` value
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For positional arguments with nargs_ equal to ``?`` or ``*``, the ``default`` value
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is used when no command-line argument was present::
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>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
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For optional argument actions, the value of ``dest`` is normally inferred from
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the option strings. :class:`ArgumentParser` generates the value of ``dest`` by
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taking the first long option string and stripping away the initial ``'--'``
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taking the first long option string and stripping away the initial ``--``
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string. If no long option strings were supplied, ``dest`` will be derived from
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the first short option string by stripping the initial ``'-'`` character. Any
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internal ``'-'`` characters will be converted to ``'_'`` characters to make sure
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the first short option string by stripping the initial ``-`` character. Any
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internal ``-`` characters will be converted to ``_`` characters to make sure
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the string is a valid attribute name. The examples below illustrate this
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behavior::
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PROG: error: extra arguments found: badger
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Arguments containing ``"-"``
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Arguments containing ``-``
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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The :meth:`~ArgumentParser.parse_args` method attempts to give errors whenever
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the user has clearly made a mistake, but some situations are inherently
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ambiguous. For example, the command-line argument ``'-1'`` could either be an
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ambiguous. For example, the command-line argument ``-1`` could either be an
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attempt to specify an option or an attempt to provide a positional argument.
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The :meth:`~ArgumentParser.parse_args` method is cautious here: positional
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arguments may only begin with ``'-'`` if they look like negative numbers and
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arguments may only begin with ``-`` if they look like negative numbers and
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there are no options in the parser that look like negative numbers::
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>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='PROG')
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usage: PROG [-h] [-1 ONE] [foo]
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PROG: error: argument -1: expected one argument
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If you have positional arguments that must begin with ``'-'`` and don't look
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If you have positional arguments that must begin with ``-`` and don't look
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like negative numbers, you can insert the pseudo-argument ``'--'`` which tells
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:meth:`~ArgumentParser.parse_args` that everything after that is a positional
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argument::
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Note that the object returned by :meth:`parse_args` will only contain
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attributes for the main parser and the subparser that was selected by the
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command line (and not any other subparsers). So in the example above, when
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the ``"a"`` command is specified, only the ``foo`` and ``bar`` attributes are
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present, and when the ``"b"`` command is specified, only the ``foo`` and
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the ``a`` command is specified, only the ``foo`` and ``bar`` attributes are
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present, and when the ``b`` command is specified, only the ``foo`` and
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``baz`` attributes are present.
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Similarly, when a help message is requested from a subparser, only the help
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