https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/16562f1ce31ba654c42eee644f253bb31cff9f9d
commit: 16562f1ce31ba654c42eee644f253bb31cff9f9d
branch: main
author: Florian Freitag <[email protected]>
committer: tomasr8 <[email protected]>
date: 2026-07-19T12:26:26+02:00
summary:
Document getopt and gnu_getopt longopts argument as string (#153976)
Document getopt and gnu_getopt longopts as string
files:
M Doc/library/getopt.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/getopt.rst b/Doc/library/getopt.rst
index 5c63009e22d58c..9995f114d063e8 100644
--- a/Doc/library/getopt.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/getopt.rst
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ exception:
option ``--fo`` will match as ``--foo``, but ``--f`` will
not match uniquely, so :exc:`GetoptError` will be raised.
+ If *longopts* is a string it gets treated as a list of a single element.
+
The return value consists of two elements: the first is a list of ``(option,
value)`` pairs; the second is the list of program arguments left after the
option list was stripped (this is a trailing slice of *args*). Each
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