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diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index c4e2dbc..f22aeb8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -249,11 +249,12 @@ The following sections describe how each of these are used. prog ^^^^ -By default, :class:`ArgumentParser` objects use ``sys.argv[0]`` to determine +By default, :class:`ArgumentParser` objects use the base name +(see :func:`os.path.basename`) of ``sys.argv[0]`` to determine how to display the name of the program in help messages. This default is almost -always desirable because it will make the help messages match how the program was -invoked on the command line. For example, consider a file named -``myprogram.py`` with the following code:: +always desirable because it will make the help messages match the name that was +used to invoke the program on the command line. For example, consider a file +named ``myprogram.py`` with the following code:: import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() |