https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a052faf58ec74ea85a71c9f66899be9940e34dc2 commit: a052faf58ec74ea85a71c9f66899be9940e34dc2 branch: 3.13 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: Yhg1s <[email protected]> date: 2024-09-23T15:50:24-07:00 summary:
[3.13] GH-79714: Add mention of stderr for clarity to ArgumentParser.exit() (GH-123932) (#124331) GH-79714: Add mention of stderr for clarity to ArgumentParser.exit() (GH-123932) (cherry picked from commit 5f5c0b9c23238dc0a1fdb764f625ae0cc5604519) Co-authored-by: Savannah Ostrowski <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/argparse.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index aa1341c8d4d4a8..c4e2dbcac2156c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ The ``deprecated`` keyword argument of specifies if the argument is deprecated and will be removed in the future. For arguments, if ``deprecated`` is ``True``, then a warning will be -printed to standard error when the argument is used:: +printed to :data:`sys.stderr` when the argument is used:: >>> import argparse >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='snake.py') @@ -2235,8 +2235,8 @@ Exiting methods .. method:: ArgumentParser.exit(status=0, message=None) This method terminates the program, exiting with the specified *status* - and, if given, it prints a *message* before that. The user can override - this method to handle these steps differently:: + and, if given, it prints a *message* to :data:`sys.stderr` before that. + The user can override this method to handle these steps differently:: class ErrorCatchingArgumentParser(argparse.ArgumentParser): def exit(self, status=0, message=None): @@ -2246,8 +2246,8 @@ Exiting methods .. method:: ArgumentParser.error(message) - This method prints a usage message including the *message* to the - standard error and terminates the program with a status code of 2. + This method prints a usage message, including the *message*, to + :data:`sys.stderr` and terminates the program with a status code of 2. Intermixed parsing _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-checkins.python.org/ Member address: [email protected]
