https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5f5c0b9c23238dc0a1fdb764f625ae0cc5604519
commit: 5f5c0b9c23238dc0a1fdb764f625ae0cc5604519
branch: main
author: Savannah Ostrowski <[email protected]>
committer: serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]>
date: 2024-09-23T12:08:03+03:00
summary:
GH-79714: Add mention of stderr for clarity to ArgumentParser.exit() (GH-123932)
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
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