https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3d16dc6812b9b1d5d786fd72053202bb4b3f5b31
commit: 3d16dc6812b9b1d5d786fd72053202bb4b3f5b31
branch: 3.15
author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]>
committer: hugovk <[email protected]>
date: 2026-09-07T15:35:59+03:00
summary:

[3.15] gh-127296: Document that argparse count action starts from a non-zero 
default (GH-156908) (#156997)

Co-authored-by: Owen Carey <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Savannah Ostrowski <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/library/argparse.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index 9068190617ff872..8f61a7d070c3107 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -835,7 +835,9 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The 
supplied actions are:
     >>> parser.parse_args(['-vvv'])
     Namespace(verbose=3)
 
-  Note, the *default* will be ``None`` unless explicitly set to *0*.
+  Unless explicitly set, the *default* will be ``None``. If the default
+  value is a non-zero number, the count starts from that number rather
+  than from zero.
 
 * ``'help'`` - This prints a complete help message for all the options in the
   current parser and then exits. By default a help action is automatically

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