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authorÉric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>2011-08-19 01:19:36 (GMT)
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--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
.. moduleauthor:: Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com>
.. sectionauthor:: Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com>
-**Source code:** :source:`Lib/argparse.py`
-
.. versionadded:: 3.2
+**Source code:** :source:`Lib/argparse.py`
+
--------------
The :mod:`argparse` module makes it easy to write user-friendly command-line
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Parsing arguments
:class:`ArgumentParser` parses arguments through the
:meth:`~ArgumentParser.parse_args` method. This will inspect the command line,
-convert each arg to the appropriate type and then invoke the appropriate action.
+convert each argument to the appropriate type and then invoke the appropriate action.
In most cases, this means a simple :class:`Namespace` object will be built up from
attributes parsed out of the command line::
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ This can be achieved by passing ``False`` as the ``add_help=`` argument to
--foo FOO foo help
The help option is typically ``-h/--help``. The exception to this is
-if the ``prefix_chars=`` is specified and does not include ``'-'``, in
+if the ``prefix_chars=`` is specified and does not include ``-``, in
which case ``-h`` and ``--help`` are not valid options. In
this case, the first character in ``prefix_chars`` is used to prefix
the help options::
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ the help options::
prefix_chars
^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Most command-line options will use ``'-'`` as the prefix, e.g. ``-f/--foo``.
+Most command-line options will use ``-`` as the prefix, e.g. ``-f/--foo``.
Parsers that need to support different or additional prefix
characters, e.g. for options
like ``+f`` or ``/foo``, may specify them using the ``prefix_chars=`` argument
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ to the ArgumentParser constructor::
Namespace(bar='Y', f='X')
The ``prefix_chars=`` argument defaults to ``'-'``. Supplying a set of
-characters that does not include ``'-'`` will cause ``-f/--foo`` options to be
+characters that does not include ``-`` will cause ``-f/--foo`` options to be
disallowed.
@@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ single action to be taken. The ``nargs`` keyword argument associates a
different number of command-line arguments with a single action. The supported
values are:
-* N (an integer). N arguments from the command line will be gathered together into a
+* ``N`` (an integer). ``N`` arguments from the command line will be gathered together into a
list. For example::
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
@@ -790,11 +790,11 @@ values are:
Note that ``nargs=1`` produces a list of one item. This is different from
the default, in which the item is produced by itself.
-* ``'?'``. One arg will be consumed from the command line if possible, and
- produced as a single item. If no command-line arg is present, the value from
+* ``'?'``. One argument will be consumed from the command line if possible, and
+ produced as a single item. If no command-line argument is present, the value from
default_ will be produced. Note that for optional arguments, there is an
additional case - the option string is present but not followed by a
- command-line arg. In this case the value from const_ will be produced. Some
+ command-line argument. In this case the value from const_ will be produced. Some
examples to illustrate this::
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
@@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ values are:
* ``'+'``. Just like ``'*'``, all command-line args present are gathered into a
list. Additionally, an error message will be generated if there wasn't at
- least one command-line arg present. For example::
+ least one command-line argument present. For example::
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='PROG')
>>> parser.add_argument('foo', nargs='+')
@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ values are:
PROG: error: too few arguments
If the ``nargs`` keyword argument is not provided, the number of arguments consumed
-is determined by the action_. Generally this means a single command-line arg
+is determined by the action_. Generally this means a single command-line argument
will be consumed and a single item (not a list) will be produced.
@@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ the various :class:`ArgumentParser` actions. The two most common uses of it are
(like ``-f`` or ``--foo``) and ``nargs='?'``. This creates an optional
argument that can be followed by zero or one command-line arguments.
When parsing the command line, if the option string is encountered with no
- command-line arg following it, the value of ``const`` will be assumed instead.
+ command-line argument following it, the value of ``const`` will be assumed instead.
See the nargs_ description for examples.
The ``const`` keyword argument defaults to ``None``.
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ default
All optional arguments and some positional arguments may be omitted at the
command line. The ``default`` keyword argument of
:meth:`~ArgumentParser.add_argument`, whose value defaults to ``None``,
-specifies what value should be used if the command-line arg is not present.
+specifies what value should be used if the command-line argument is not present.
For optional arguments, the ``default`` value is used when the option string
was not present at the command line::
@@ -889,8 +889,8 @@ was not present at the command line::
>>> parser.parse_args(''.split())
Namespace(foo=42)
-For positional arguments with nargs_ ``='?'`` or ``'*'``, the ``default`` value
-is used when no command-line arg was present::
+For positional arguments with nargs_ equal to ``?`` or ``*``, the ``default`` value
+is used when no command-line argument was present::
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>>> parser.add_argument('foo', nargs='?', default=42)
@@ -976,8 +976,8 @@ choices
Some command-line arguments should be selected from a restricted set of values.
These can be handled by passing a container object as the ``choices`` keyword
argument to :meth:`~ArgumentParser.add_argument`. When the command line is
-parsed, arg values will be checked, and an error message will be displayed if
-the arg was not one of the acceptable values::
+parsed, argument values will be checked, and an error message will be displayed if
+the argument was not one of the acceptable values::
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='PROG')
>>> parser.add_argument('foo', choices='abc')
@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ value as the "name" of each object. By default, for positional argument
actions, the dest_ value is used directly, and for optional argument actions,
the dest_ value is uppercased. So, a single positional argument with
``dest='bar'`` will that argument will be referred to as ``bar``. A single
-optional argument ``--foo`` that should be followed by a single command-line arg
+optional argument ``--foo`` that should be followed by a single command-line argument
will be referred to as ``FOO``. An example::
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
@@ -1152,10 +1152,10 @@ attribute is determined by the ``dest`` keyword argument of
For optional argument actions, the value of ``dest`` is normally inferred from
the option strings. :class:`ArgumentParser` generates the value of ``dest`` by
-taking the first long option string and stripping away the initial ``'--'``
+taking the first long option string and stripping away the initial ``--``
string. If no long option strings were supplied, ``dest`` will be derived from
-the first short option string by stripping the initial ``'-'`` character. Any
-internal ``'-'`` characters will be converted to ``'_'`` characters to make sure
+the first short option string by stripping the initial ``-`` character. Any
+internal ``-`` characters will be converted to ``_`` characters to make sure
the string is a valid attribute name. The examples below illustrate this
behavior::
@@ -1187,7 +1187,7 @@ The parse_args() method
created and how they are assigned. See the documentation for
:meth:`add_argument` for details.
- By default, the arg strings are taken from :data:`sys.argv`, and a new empty
+ By default, the argument strings are taken from :data:`sys.argv`, and a new empty
:class:`Namespace` object is created for the attributes.
@@ -1258,15 +1258,15 @@ it exits and prints the error along with a usage message::
PROG: error: extra arguments found: badger
-Arguments containing ``"-"``
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Arguments containing ``-``
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The :meth:`~ArgumentParser.parse_args` method attempts to give errors whenever
the user has clearly made a mistake, but some situations are inherently
-ambiguous. For example, the command-line arg ``'-1'`` could either be an
+ambiguous. For example, the command-line argument ``-1`` could either be an
attempt to specify an option or an attempt to provide a positional argument.
The :meth:`~ArgumentParser.parse_args` method is cautious here: positional
-arguments may only begin with ``'-'`` if they look like negative numbers and
+arguments may only begin with ``-`` if they look like negative numbers and
there are no options in the parser that look like negative numbers::
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='PROG')
@@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@ there are no options in the parser that look like negative numbers::
usage: PROG [-h] [-1 ONE] [foo]
PROG: error: argument -1: expected one argument
-If you have positional arguments that must begin with ``'-'`` and don't look
+If you have positional arguments that must begin with ``-`` and don't look
like negative numbers, you can insert the pseudo-argument ``'--'`` which tells
:meth:`~ArgumentParser.parse_args` that everything after that is a positional
argument::
@@ -1417,7 +1417,7 @@ Sub-commands
>>> parser_b = subparsers.add_parser('b', help='b help')
>>> parser_b.add_argument('--baz', choices='XYZ', help='baz help')
>>>
- >>> # parse some arg lists
+ >>> # parse some argument lists
>>> parser.parse_args(['a', '12'])
Namespace(bar=12, foo=False)
>>> parser.parse_args(['--foo', 'b', '--baz', 'Z'])
@@ -1426,8 +1426,8 @@ Sub-commands
Note that the object returned by :meth:`parse_args` will only contain
attributes for the main parser and the subparser that was selected by the
command line (and not any other subparsers). So in the example above, when
- the ``"a"`` command is specified, only the ``foo`` and ``bar`` attributes are
- present, and when the ``"b"`` command is specified, only the ``foo`` and
+ the ``a`` command is specified, only the ``foo`` and ``bar`` attributes are
+ present, and when the ``b`` command is specified, only the ``foo`` and
``baz`` attributes are present.
Similarly, when a help message is requested from a subparser, only the help