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authorÉric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>2012-02-20 00:44:55 (GMT)
committerÉric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>2012-02-20 00:44:55 (GMT)
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Add missing “::” markup.
Also wrap two looong lines.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index 58b2b59..79a98cb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ how the command-line arguments should be handled. The supported actions are:
* ``'version'`` - This expects a ``version=`` keyword argument in the
:meth:`~ArgumentParser.add_argument` call, and prints version information
- and exits when invoked.
+ and exits when invoked::
>>> import argparse
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='PROG')
@@ -772,8 +772,8 @@ 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
- list. For example::
+* ``N`` (an integer). ``N`` arguments from the command line will be gathered
+ together into a list. For example::
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>>> parser.add_argument('--foo', nargs=2)
@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ values are:
* ``argparse.REMAINDER``. All the remaining command-line arguments are gathered
into a list. This is commonly useful for command line utilities that dispatch
- to other command line utilities.
+ to other command line utilities::
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='PROG')
>>> parser.add_argument('--foo')
@@ -865,7 +865,8 @@ the various :class:`ArgumentParser` actions. The two most common uses of it are
* When :meth:`~ArgumentParser.add_argument` is called with
``action='store_const'`` or ``action='append_const'``. These actions add the
- ``const`` value to one of the attributes of the object returned by :meth:`~ArgumentParser.parse_args`. See the action_ description for examples.
+ ``const`` value to one of the attributes of the object returned by
+ :meth:`~ArgumentParser.parse_args`. See the action_ description for examples.
* When :meth:`~ArgumentParser.add_argument` is called with option strings
(like ``-f`` or ``--foo``) and ``nargs='?'``. This creates an optional
@@ -1576,21 +1577,21 @@ FileType objects
The :class:`FileType` factory creates objects that can be passed to the type
argument of :meth:`ArgumentParser.add_argument`. Arguments that have
:class:`FileType` objects as their type will open command-line arguments as files
- with the requested modes and buffer sizes:
+ with the requested modes and buffer sizes::
- >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
- >>> parser.add_argument('--output', type=argparse.FileType('wb', 0))
- >>> parser.parse_args(['--output', 'out'])
- Namespace(output=<_io.BufferedWriter name='out'>)
+ >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+ >>> parser.add_argument('--output', type=argparse.FileType('wb', 0))
+ >>> parser.parse_args(['--output', 'out'])
+ Namespace(output=<_io.BufferedWriter name='out'>)
FileType objects understand the pseudo-argument ``'-'`` and automatically
convert this into ``sys.stdin`` for readable :class:`FileType` objects and
- ``sys.stdout`` for writable :class:`FileType` objects:
+ ``sys.stdout`` for writable :class:`FileType` objects::
- >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
- >>> parser.add_argument('infile', type=argparse.FileType('r'))
- >>> parser.parse_args(['-'])
- Namespace(infile=<_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdin>' encoding='UTF-8'>)
+ >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+ >>> parser.add_argument('infile', type=argparse.FileType('r'))
+ >>> parser.parse_args(['-'])
+ Namespace(infile=<_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdin>' encoding='UTF-8'>)
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