[issue24647] Document argparse.REMAINDER as being equal to "..."

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

I would say nargs='...' is borderline...it's meaning is *fairly* intuitive, but 
unlike the other three it does not, as paul.j3 points out, have a regex (or 
shell) counterpart.

I think we should respect the original author's decision in this case and leave 
well enough alone.

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[issue24647] Document argparse.REMAINDER as being equal to ...

[paul j3]

paul j3 added the comment:

Also, argparse.PARSER  is '+...'

'? * +' have closely matched analogs in regex patterns.  '...' and '+...' do 
not.  So Python users will have an intuitive idea of what nargs='*' means.  
nargs='...' is not so obvious.

As a general rule, the document does not expose the values of module constants.

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[issue24647] Document argparse.REMAINDER as being equal to ...

[Ned Deily]

Changes by Ned Deily n...@acm.org:


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[issue24647] Document argparse.REMAINDER as being equal to ...

[Antony Lee]

New submission from Antony Lee:

Currently the argparse docs mention the special values +, * and ? by 
their actual values instead of argparse.{ONE_OR_MORE,ZERO_OR_MORE,OPTIONAL}, 
but argparse.REMAINDER is mentioned as is.  It seems easier to just use its 
actual value (...) in the docs as well.

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