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authorBerker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com>2016-10-17 03:14:17 (GMT)
committerBerker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com>2016-10-17 03:14:17 (GMT)
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Issue #28455: Clarify example of overriding the convert_arg_line_to_args method
Patch by Mariatta Wijaya.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
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@@ -1958,10 +1958,11 @@ Customizing file parsing
The method is called once per line read from the argument file, in order.
A useful override of this method is one that treats each space-separated word
- as an argument::
+ as an argument. The following example demonstrates how to do this::
- def convert_arg_line_to_args(self, arg_line):
- return arg_line.split()
+ class MyArgumentParser(argparse.ArgumentParser):
+ def convert_arg_line_to_args(self, arg_line):
+ return arg_line.split()
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