https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/37425fe9fb776f2bd3c8ec13cf7f16e04a71ea93
commit: 37425fe9fb776f2bd3c8ec13cf7f16e04a71ea93
branch: main
author: PrinceNaroliya <[email protected]>
committer: savannahostrowski <[email protected]>
date: 2025-09-17T15:15:57Z
summary:

gh-137988: Fix const description in argparse.add_argument() docs (#138315)

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 79e15994491eff..ef8242f5f780f5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -981,8 +981,8 @@ 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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