In article <roy-632FE4.13374023102011 at news.panix.com>, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote: > As I read the docs (http://tinyurl.com/3ww9scr), the following two calls > should result in the same object: >> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="blah") > parser = argparse.ArgumentParser("blah") Sigh. I should have dug deeper before posting. The docs don't match the code (they list the arguments in different orders). I've opened http://bugs.python.org/issue13249 on this.