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diff --git a/Doc/library/optparse.rst b/Doc/library/optparse.rst index 49371be..2fa4388 100644 --- a/Doc/library/optparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/optparse.rst @@ -1171,19 +1171,20 @@ where the input parameters are the list of arguments to process (default: ``sys.argv[1:]``) ``values`` - object to store option arguments in (default: a new instance of optparse.Values) + object to store option arguments in (default: a new instance of + :class:`optparse.Values`) and the return values are ``options`` - the same object that was passed in as ``options``, or the optparse.Values + the same object that was passed in as ``values``, or the optparse.Values instance created by :mod:`optparse` ``args`` the leftover positional arguments after all options have been processed The most common usage is to supply neither keyword argument. If you supply -``options``, it will be modified with repeated ``setattr()`` calls (roughly one +``values``, it will be modified with repeated ``setattr()`` calls (roughly one for every option argument stored to an option destination) and returned by :meth:`parse_args`. |