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| author | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2012-06-26 06:17:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2012-06-26 06:17:19 (GMT) |
| commit | f21804ad61af980cd6659ca8471b111675b9d20c (patch) | |
| tree | d406d882e5017f03c70aa1c94ebbb8ed01b53385 /Doc/library/argparse.rst | |
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Issue #13685 - Update argparse help message for % sign usage.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index 186e12d..d64f8a2 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -1082,6 +1082,9 @@ 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``:: |