From cb21227407f20ba41d81b3e82f7ae76b115a64b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sandro Tosi Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:22:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Issue #13605: more meaningful example + fixes --- Doc/library/argparse.rst | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index 6e8bff1b8d9..0b0e9d37181 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -838,16 +838,16 @@ values are: usage: PROG [-h] foo [foo ...] PROG: error: too few arguments -* ``argparse.REMAINDER``. All the remaining command-line arguments - are gathered into a lits. This is commonly useful for command line - utilities that dispatch to other command line utilities. +* ``argparse.REMAINDER``. All the remaining command-line arguments are gathered + into a list. This is commonly useful for command line utilities that dispatch + to other command line utilities. >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='PROG') >>> parser.add_argument('--foo') >>> parser.add_argument('command') >>> parser.add_argument('args', nargs=argparse.REMAINDER) - >>> print parser.parse_args('--foo B XX YY ZZ'.split()) - Namespace(args=['YY', 'ZZ'], command='XX', foo='B') + >>> print parser.parse_args('--foo B cmd --arg1 XX ZZ'.split()) + Namespace(args=['--arg1', 'XX', 'ZZ'], command='cmd', foo='B') If the ``nargs`` keyword argument is not provided, the number of arguments consumed is determined by the action_. Generally this means a single command-line argument