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diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index 5b725c4..6fcb336 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -976,9 +976,9 @@ See the section on the default_ keyword argument for information on when the ``type`` argument is applied to default arguments. To ease the use of various types of files, the argparse module provides the -factory FileType which takes the ``mode=`` and ``bufsize=`` arguments of the -:func:`open` function. For example, ``FileType('w')`` can be used to create a -writable file:: +factory FileType which takes the ``mode=``, ``bufsize=``, ``encoding=`` and +``errors=`` arguments of the :func:`open` function. For example, +``FileType('w')`` can be used to create a writable file:: >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> parser.add_argument('bar', type=argparse.FileType('w')) @@ -1618,17 +1618,19 @@ Sub-commands FileType objects ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -.. class:: FileType(mode='r', bufsize=None) +.. class:: FileType(mode='r', bufsize=-1, encoding=None, errors=None) 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:: + :class:`FileType` objects as their type will open command-line arguments as + files with the requested modes, buffer sizes, encodings and error handling + (see the :func:`open` function for more details):: >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() - >>> parser.add_argument('--output', type=argparse.FileType('wb', 0)) - >>> parser.parse_args(['--output', 'out']) - Namespace(output=<_io.BufferedWriter name='out'>) + >>> parser.add_argument('--raw', type=argparse.FileType('wb', 0)) + >>> parser.add_argument('out', type=argparse.FileType('w', encoding='UTF-8')) + >>> parser.parse_args(['--raw', 'raw.dat', 'file.txt']) + Namespace(out=<_io.TextIOWrapper name='file.txt' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'>, raw=<_io.FileIO name='raw.dat' mode='wb'>) FileType objects understand the pseudo-argument ``'-'`` and automatically convert this into ``sys.stdin`` for readable :class:`FileType` objects and |