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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2008-09-06 13:04:02 (GMT)
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2008-09-06 13:04:02 (GMT)
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#3040: include 'dest' argument in example; trim some trailing whitespace
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diff --git a/Doc/library/optparse.rst b/Doc/library/optparse.rst
index 4bf544c..d74256d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/optparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/optparse.rst
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ argument
``sys.argv[1:]``, or of some other list provided as a substitute for
``sys.argv[1:]``".
-option
+option
an argument used to supply extra information to guide or customize the execution
of a program. There are many different syntaxes for options; the traditional
Unix syntax is a hyphen ("-") followed by a single letter, e.g. ``"-x"`` or
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ user-friendly (documented) options::
action="store_true", dest="verbose", default=True,
help="make lots of noise [default]")
parser.add_option("-q", "--quiet",
- action="store_false", dest="verbose",
+ action="store_false", dest="verbose",
help="be vewwy quiet (I'm hunting wabbits)")
parser.add_option("-f", "--filename",
metavar="FILE", help="write output to FILE"),
@@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ arguments::
setattr(parser.values, option.dest, value)
[...]
- parser.add_option("-c", "--callback",
+ parser.add_option("-c", "--callback", dest="vararg_attr",
action="callback", callback=vararg_callback)
The main weakness with this particular implementation is that negative numbers