From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 06:53:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #8735: better explain semantics of *values* argument for parse().
X-Git-Tag: v3.2a2~580
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#8735: better explain semantics of *values* argument for parse().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/optparse.rst b/Doc/library/optparse.rst
index 37eab3768e..37226c3846 100644
--- a/Doc/library/optparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/optparse.rst
@@ -1234,8 +1234,9 @@ 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
-   :class:`optparse.Values`)
+   a :class:`optparse.Values` object to store option arguments in (default: a
+   new instance of :class:`Values`) -- if you give an existing object, the
+   option defaults will not be initialized on it
 
 and the return values are