https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2806469667b3a38f265a22e67d7adcde2dc4f846
commit: 2806469667b3a38f265a22e67d7adcde2dc4f846
branch: 3.13
author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]>
committer: savannahostrowski <[email protected]>
date: 2025-09-17T16:54:23+01:00
summary:

[3.13] gh-137988: Fix const description in argparse.add_argument() docs 
(GH-138315) (#139052)

Co-authored-by: PrinceNaroliya <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Savannah Bailey <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/library/argparse.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index 6d9348c547227d..c470cd1adef841 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -896,8 +896,8 @@ the various :class:`ArgumentParser` actions.  The two most 
common uses of it are
   (like ``-f`` or ``--foo``) and ``nargs='?'``.  This creates an optional
   argument that can be followed by zero or one command-line arguments.
   When parsing the command line, if the option string is encountered with no
-  command-line argument following it, the value of ``const`` will be assumed to
-  be ``None`` instead.  See the nargs_ description for examples.
+  command-line argument following it, the value from ``const`` will be used.
+  See the nargs_ description for examples.
 
 .. versionchanged:: 3.11
    ``const=None`` by default, including when ``action='append_const'`` or

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