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| author | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2012-06-26 06:18:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2012-06-26 06:18:19 (GMT) |
| commit | 93e3d3ac094f788260bd61b74a0a99847466dd0e (patch) | |
| tree | f7ccc55e8b86b49de01b7d924728c0ef3dba897c /Doc/library/argparse.rst | |
| parent | a57a8e072c8a6f6c5b71abaf245892977ee372dc (diff) | |
| parent | f21804ad61af980cd6659ca8471b111675b9d20c (diff) | |
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merge from 3.2 - Issue13685
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diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index 8e7fa5e..21f06f3 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -1101,6 +1101,9 @@ specifiers include the program name, ``%(prog)s`` and most keyword arguments to optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit +As the help string supports %-formatting, if you want a literal ``%`` to appear +in the help string, you must escape it as ``%%``. + :mod:`argparse` supports silencing the help entry for certain options, by setting the ``help`` value to ``argparse.SUPPRESS``:: |