From: Sandro Tosi <sandro.tosi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:22:35 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Issue #13605: more meaningful example + fixes
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.3rc1~146
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cb21227407f20ba41d81b3e82f7ae76b115a64b1;p=python

Issue #13605: more meaningful example + fixes
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diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index 6e8bff1b8d..0b0e9d3718 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -838,16 +838,16 @@ values are:
      usage: PROG [-h] foo [foo ...]
      PROG: error: too few arguments
 
-* ``argparse.REMAINDER``.  All the remaining command-line arguments
-  are gathered into a lits. This is commonly useful for command line
-  utilities that dispatch to other command line utilities.
+* ``argparse.REMAINDER``.  All the remaining command-line arguments are gathered
+  into a list.  This is commonly useful for command line utilities that dispatch
+  to other command line utilities.
 
      >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='PROG')
      >>> parser.add_argument('--foo')
      >>> parser.add_argument('command')
      >>> parser.add_argument('args', nargs=argparse.REMAINDER)
-     >>> print parser.parse_args('--foo B XX YY ZZ'.split())
-     Namespace(args=['YY', 'ZZ'], command='XX', foo='B')
+     >>> print parser.parse_args('--foo B cmd --arg1 XX ZZ'.split())
+     Namespace(args=['--arg1', 'XX', 'ZZ'], command='cmd', foo='B')
 
 If the ``nargs`` keyword argument is not provided, the number of arguments consumed
 is determined by the action_.  Generally this means a single command-line argument