[Python-checkins] cpython (3.5): Issue #25314: Remove confused statement about const argument

Fri Apr 15 20:22:08 EDT 2016

https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/59b8db278e3c
changeset: 101002:59b8db278e3c
branch: 3.5
parent: 100999:f16ec63055ad
user: Martin Panter <vadmium+py at gmail.com>
date: Sat Apr 09 03:49:48 2016 +0000
summary:
 Issue #25314: Remove confused statement about const argument
files:
 Doc/library/argparse.rst | 6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -720,8 +720,7 @@
 Namespace(foo='1')
 
 * ``'store_const'`` - This stores the value specified by the const_ keyword
- argument. (Note that the const_ keyword argument defaults to the rather
- unhelpful ``None``.) The ``'store_const'`` action is most commonly used with
+ argument. The ``'store_const'`` action is most commonly used with
 optional arguments that specify some sort of flag. For example::
 
 >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
@@ -923,7 +922,8 @@
 command-line argument following it, the value of ``const`` will be assumed instead.
 See the nargs_ description for examples.
 
-The ``const`` keyword argument defaults to ``None``.
+With the ``'store_const'`` and ``'append_const'`` actions, the ``const``
+keyword argument must be given. For other actions, is defaults to ``None``.
 
 
 default
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Repository URL: https://hg.python.org/cpython
