https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fa9bb9a09273c7fba8023b24069f570797de01b4 commit: fa9bb9a09273c7fba8023b24069f570797de01b4 branch: 3.14 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: savannahostrowski <[email protected]> date: 2025-11-02T21:08:47-08:00 summary:
[3.14] gh-140693: Improve `argparse` documentation about controlling color (GH-140737) (#140932) gh-140693: Improve `argparse` documentation about controlling color (GH-140737) (cherry picked from commit 31de83d5e2e17f4e9a37e08b384bab916e1da7c1) Co-authored-by: Krishna Chaitanya <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/argparse.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index a7603ac272633d..0ee921e15260c4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -639,6 +639,11 @@ by setting ``color`` to ``False``:: ... help='an integer for the accumulator') >>> parser.parse_args(['--help']) +Note that when ``color=True``, colored output depends on both environment +variables and terminal capabilities. However, if ``color=False``, colored +output is always disabled, even if environment variables like ``FORCE_COLOR`` +are set. + .. versionadded:: 3.14 _______________________________________________ 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]
